The short story collection is #ReadWithMC's September pick.
Usually, with short story collections, you just get these bursts of inspiration and ideas. Gradually, over time, you realize,nd people start to feel like your family, your friends. You feel like there’s a connection, and that’s usually when the connectivity of the story itself comes through. The inspiration was really when I wrote the very last story in the book about the man who’s falling and looking at his life.
I think my characters—even though their experiences with immigration go back several years, and some in the current moment—are people like our neighbors who are being scapegoated and maligned right now. They’re being raided by immigration [officials], their children feel unsafe in this country. You get to see the inside of their lives.
In short stories, you do your best to make every word count, so you have to pour yourself into so many of these moments.I think Kim Boyer from"Seven Stories." She’s a writer who goes to another country and sees an old friend. I think because she’s a writer, I feel like I connected with her. But also Nadia from"In the Old Days." I see different versions of myself over the years in these characters.
and reviewed what happened at the Louvre. After she passed away, I said I’m just going to read her books, so she’s on my nightstand right now.
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