Once I became historically aware, I realized there are these formative moments of history tied around tragedy and disaster and sacrifice, that led pe….

People were always hungry, bullied, afraid, paranoid - so I just thought I'd show that in the novel in a kind of suffocating way..

I usually feel something before I know it..

Magical realism as a declaration in the text is usually when someone can't speak and then they must be magically reinvigorated in some way..