Jai Chakrabarti : A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness
Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry
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The Struggle to Write a Novel
I was in this novel in pursuit of characters who are very different for me. I feel an immense sense of gratitude to the Jewish organizations and communities who have welcomed me. The decision to bring Lucy on as a point of view character was largely to allow me to write that novel with a little bit of distance from Yarek, because while she is someone who's endured suffering. And then of course later on there were structural reasons and traumatic reasons for it. But it was an extraordinary challenge. It certainly has changed me as a writer.
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