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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

Author Kiley Reid on why we read novels

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

How Do You Write a Novel About Poverty?

One of the things that's really impressive in this novel is how it's able to be really playful while also handling all of these very difficult subjects and questions super carefully. There's this sort of ceptive amount of breeziness and prepulsiveness. So you're kind of rushing through this story, and then you only realize, like a beat later, how heavy all this material is.

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