The Last Samurai by Helen Dewitt

James Kenley: I think he's so on the money about like, you got to know the rules to break them. It reminds me of she wrote The Last Samurai,. Do you know who I'm talking about? No, I don't. Oh my God. One must read it. If I Helen Dewitt, okay. And she- In the beginning of the story, there was this whole anecdote of like, if I listened to my parents, this is how my life would have turned out. Please don't cut this out. This is very important to me.