Xochitl Gonzalez, "Olga Dies Dreaming" (Flatiron Books, 2022)
Burned By Books
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The Importance of Respect in Politics
I like the idea of two people having the same experience, hit them at different ages. And then how does that influence the choices that you then make each step along the way and what you're going to be interested in? So I imagined her as sort of this. And then when I decided that she should have an older brother, I had imagined him because both of them were sort of their life choices were kind of in response to their parents. He arrives at not too much a radical place, but a more pragmatic place is how he would probably justify it. Like what he took away was like they were trying to help people. In his mind, he wants to service people. She's
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