Interviews

In the spirit of leaning into the strengths you have as a writer, I try to make setting another character when I write and try to make the picture as vivid for readers as I can.

I love to listen repetitively, and I love to appreciate and to praise the people who I respect and admire, so I thought, “This is what I can do. I can just love and love again through this book.”

"When we love people, we stand to lose so much, don’t we? It’s one of the best things to write about."

The diaspora is not just a longing for home but is also really complicated and beautiful and painful, this mysterious experience abroad.

Friendship is in some ways the purest expression of love. Friendship doesn’t ask for something back in the same way that other loves do.

As a writer, anything pertaining to the psyche is a rich, vast junkyard I can poke around in to create narratives that align with my own obsessions.