Lionel Shriver
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Often that's an economic disadvantage.
All of these things are a formula for a sympathetic character.
And when you have a sympathetic immigrant,
you are implicitly writing a pro-immigration book.
I mean, that's just the way it works, insofar as you have any political content.
I know of only one other novel that portrays the experience of the host community, and that would be T.C.
Boyle's The Tortilla Curtain.
That goes back to 1999.
And I really can't name another one.
I agree with you.
I'm not sure that being willing to use the word colonization means that the cause of that colonization is just the force of people's desire.
Certainly, that's part of the explanation, but it is being permitted.
Right.
Without doubt.
Yes, yes.
And, you know, I was doing an event last night and somebody said, you know, isn't it inevitable?
It is not inevitable.
Politicians of certain stripes have encouraged us to believe that it is inevitable.
And, you know, this book is set in the United States.
The U.S.