Larissa Pham

It's good to see what I might come to like about it or see what it's teaching me to see.

Yes.

I think it will be...

fun to look for examples of the word narrative.

And if I'm permitted to add a phrase, I think one of my favorite phrases in the book is, that's not how I remember it.

I hope that people will talk to each other.

I hope that this book will bring people together, not in like a, you know, maybe like a huggy way, but in a like, I want people to, you know, discuss the ending, discuss some of the questions that it raises, maybe get into some fights or, you know, push each other towards a place of understanding.

I would really like people to talk to each other.

And then also I hope that,

you know, if anyone has maybe put down a practice or put down an art form that they consider picking it up again, that would make me really happy.

If I can add one more thing, I know that I like to talk about this book as a book about revenge.

I think it's very fun and sexy to call it a book about revenge, but I actually do think it's a book about compassion as well.

And I think those things go hand in hand.

And I think that's, you know, a core question of the book is like how

Do we have empathy?

How do we have compassion while also holding in our hearts like anger and a desire for revenge?

How do those things coexist?

Thank you so much.

This was so fun.