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“When I wasn’t writing, I spent a lot of time in the park near where I lived, listening to an elaborate playlist I had crafted for the book that reflected, for me, the emotional beats of the story. It felt like a way to inhabit the world of my novel, even when I wasn’t in it.”
“Most of my work is about obsession. If I had to identify the prevailing mood and motivation of the characters in Mon Dieu, Love, it is this sort of simmering, low-grade longing for something they’ve never experienced – a fantasy of romantic relationships that are stable and wild, risky and cozy, and secure and challenging all at once.”
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“In a Land without Dogs The Cats Learn to Bark is a novel whose characters are, in many ways, guided by music. By the music of revolution, the music of change, the music of chance, the music that is expansiveness, possibility and self-expression.”
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“These songs inspired me to push on through dark circumstances; to believe in the creative power of sound to transform that darkness into light, and at my childhood journey’s end, to arrive at the belief that God has to be music.”
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“I listen to music constantly, even while writing. The songs become part of the weather; they help set the tone for the work.”