Fernanda Melchor and Nicole Flattery: Paradais
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The Importance of Imagination
Brando and Polo are a little bit like Pinky in Brighton Rock I really love that book, and Graham's Ring first novel. In fact, Brando, I lived inside Brando, and that was very much devastating. When I was writing the hurricane season, before Brando, it was always Norma So being Norma, being this pregnant 13 year old who is lost in the middle of all these strangers trying to understand what just happened to her was awful enough. And then I remember myself writing the draft of hurricane season, working on the revising"
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