Is There a Universal in Your Writing?

Ana, i was thinking a lot about your work when i started this project. I wanted to find these places where my little life runs up against these big historical forces. But i also wanted to figure out how do, how do i find a way to write directly about emotion? And somehow, like stripping away the irony that's kind of my default setting to get to some kind of real emotional depth. It seems like that's exactly what it isy. You use the funny and the ironic to get to the emotionalmum. That must have been a guiding principle for you with this specific book.

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