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“I also try to use my down time from writing to reconnect with life beyond the page.”
“At the ceremony, Erica Jong, who was one of the fiction judges that year, came over to my table and told me, “It’s good you didn’t win so young.”
“My English as a Second Language teacher, Mr.”
“But if I had to choose two people I’d most want to read it, I’d choose my first teachers in this country at Jackie Robinson Intermediate School in Brooklyn, New York.”
“You’re young, she said, and both praise and criticism, or some combination of the two, can end a writing career even before it starts.”
“What’s the best or worst writing advice you’ve ever received?”
“The only people I ever wanted to hold off from reading my books, at least for a while, were my parents.”
“Which of your characters is your favorite?”
“Dusseck, and my first English teacher whose name I’m never sure of because I only had her for a while.”
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“I sometimes think of her as the heir to my earlier characters, a descendant of the women in my debut novel Breath, Eyes, Memory and my first story collection Krik?”
“She’s a “good” daughter, but not so good that she doesn’t challenge or question her parents.”