Post #651609

“I have, of course, used slivers of my very own life to write fiction. And maybe that has had some consequences. On my daughter, for instance. She is convinced, for example, that when she was five years old, she almost drowned in a swimming pool in the shape of an electric guitar in Memphis, Tennessee, like the girl in one of my books almost did. It took me a while to convince her that no, she has never almost drowned, that in fact she's never been to Memphis, Tennessee, and that there is no such thing as a guitar-shaped swimming pool.” - Valeria Luiselli