Naoise Dolan: Exciting Times
World Book Club
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I Left Hong Kong Culture and Ava's Irish Identity in Exciting Times
I like to set what i'm writing in places that are immediate to me. Hong kong is this enormously complexcity with a really teared history of interactions with various aggressive powers. It's also within the context of the pa community that the novel primarily focus us on, somewhere the people go if they want to escape those sorts of connections. And it can't last. You will just build up connections to where you are. If you're there long enough, they might ane to be good connections, or respectful ones. That is what i thinkis oe explanation for ting.
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