Amity Gaige has written a flawless book. It does not contain a single false note. Playful and inventive, … - David Bezmozgis

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Every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects: at the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and the bottom are the arts.

David Bezmozgis

Amity Gaige has written a flawless book. It does not contain a single false note. Playful and inventive, SCHRODER movingly depicts the ways we confound our own hearts--how even with the best intentions, we fail to love those closest to us as well as we wish we could. Eric Schroder should take his place among the most charismatic and memorable characters in contemporary fiction, and Amity Gaige her place among the most talented and impressive writers working today.

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I think ex-Soviet or Russian-Jewish women are tougher and that comes through. And if they are more pragmatic than the men, it's because they are obliged to be. They have all the female responsibilities and all the male responsibilities.

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I think even with women who come across with a tough exterior, the interior is the same. I think you'll find this with women around the word: some women, because of their circumstances, are forced to be tougher, forced to cultivate tougher exteriors.

Circumstances, Interior, Thinking, Tough, Women

When you write a book, you want to have fidelity to the character. Characters and their emotions guide the structure of the novel.

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When you write a book, you want to have fidelity to the character. Characters and their emotions guide the structure of the novel. The author is aware that there's a certain amount of information she
he has to provide in order to satisfy the reader, knowing that she
he has set something up that must be paid off, but this payment must be made while maintaining fidelity to the characters.

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Nothing is easy in writing. I don't think for anyone. But dialogue is probably what comes most naturally to me.

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