When your last novel came out, my mom said, Daddy died, and this new one has war in Ukraine

Thoughts will just keep coming, the yoga teacher said during the first class. This is very normal and always will be. She meant that I should let those thoughts blow, as it’s called, not isolate and grab them, as I’m used to, and then keep repeating, reformulating, and honing them until they’re murder weapons.

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