Gilbert Cruz

We at the book review put your book, Angel, down on our list of top 10 books of the year last year.

So there might be some people who are already familiar with it and have read it and bought it.

But for those who haven't had a chance to get to it yet and might do so now that it has won this amazing prize, could you give just the briefest of summaries?

And then I have so many questions for you about the book.

It's a good and surprising story.

Something that also is very surprising is the way that it was written.

It's written essentially as one sentence from beginning to end, which is a fascinating conceit.

I think it takes some people just a minute or two to get into it.

Did the conceit come first or the story or how did those two sort of meet?

What did you think would be the challenges of this approach?

And then what were the actual challenges?

I think this is a, it's a lot of things.

This book is a war book.

It's also a horror book, I think.

I don't know.

Do you consider it to be in that genre?

Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, and, you know, I say this with the highest respect because I am a horror fan, horror movies, horror books, love it all.

This book is incredibly gross.

Yeah, it is.