The Importance of Complexity in Literature

"There's just so many stories in here. There's an immigrant story, you know, it's a very political aspect," she says. "That's kind of what it is to live in America. You are all these multiple selves." She recalls being told by one editor that her book was about the most important story and left with eight other offers on the table. 'I think how many people had to like shave off entire parts of themselves just to get published'