In many ways, this feels like a more personal and a closer book to you than Lesson Zero. I thought it just would have been disingenuous to not call the character Brett Ellis. And so that's how it worked. For so much of the novel, I was writing a memoir, even though this is a novel. But it was also in many ways my memories of high school and my memories of the boys and the girls I knew."

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