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We're in a Different World
I like to think of it as sort of our world with like the volume kind of turned up to 11. There's a lot of anti Chinese sentiment, and the government is allowed to take away the children of people who they feel are being un-American. And you're right, that was a new step for me in doing kind of this level of world building. My last novel Little Fires Everywhere I Cheated a little bit in setting it in my hometown which is a place that I knew. It was easier to build that world in some ways and in this world.