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An immigrant novelist reflects on the opportunities extended to her by the American publishing industry—and challenges the notion that she should be grateful to be given any kind of welcome.
“It’d be easier for me to stop talking than to stop writing.” —Tochi Onyebuchi, author of Goliath
“Thinking is really about 90 percent of the work.” —James Hannaham, author of Pilot Impostor
“I wrote this book with the constraint of honesty.” —Truong Tran, author of book of the other
“I was using the text as a future image of what my own life could be.” —Shayla Lawz, author of speculation, n.
“There was so much shame in this project for me to dispel and bury.” —Mahogany L. Browne, author of I Remember Death by Its Proximity to What I Love
“It was all fun and games until I realized that I was actually writing a book.” —E. C. Osondu, author of Alien Stories
“I often worried what would come out would be scary, accusing, not close enough to the truth or too close.” —Carey Salerno, author of Tributary
“Do the hard stuff first.” —Kaitlyn Greenidge, author of Libertie
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