“The idea here is the casual way children can accept and parrot this kind of simple, black-and-white math about worth. So much so that in a pinch they are willing write off their own mother!”
“I thought this exemplified two aspects of the Colombian spirit that interest and delight me: Any festive occasion can become an excuse to start a full-on party; and time is, as a manner of speaking, subjective.”
Raise a glass as the Brooklyn Book Festival kicks off at Pioneer Works on Monday, September 10
“I like melancholy and characters with weighty histories. I fell in love with Daniel. But I fall in love with all my characters.”
“I started thinking about immoral women, women who are not merely complicit counterparts to A Bad Man but active participants in cruelty.”
“When writing this story, I was thinking explicitly about a tendency in players to play games as murderous kleptomaniacs.”
“My focus was on the character and emotions of the immigrant: the loneliness, the sense of loss and disconnection.”
The debut novel NYLON called “gorgeously written.”
