 You know first of all I don't I don't see it as a magic realist book Though I mean, you know if you look through the paperback review after review, you know likens me to Garcia Marquez, which is great I you know I paid each of those reviewers five bucks to say that but you know on some level I feel that that's because that's who they know right in fact I was talking earlier at the little Derv gathering with somebody and saying you know they liken me to Garcia Marquez and then second place is Isabella yende and then third place a little more distant is You know like water for chocolate lauda esquivel because that's what people know and people are always telling me You know you write this is so reminiscent of those other Mexican books like Garcia Marquez. I'm like he's a Colombian man So, you know, that's like saying that the stand is the same book as as You know for whom the bell tolls because both are in English So that being said there are elements certainly that one would consider magic but I think partly I have to say that those elements are on the one hand indigenous elements and On the other hand things that are actually documented in Every miracle in the book is documented and observed So, you know to me the funny thing is it's not really magic realism Sort of the reverse whatever that would be real magic ism perhaps and when we were editing the book There was this one moment when my editor was happily cutting out all the all the crazy woo-woo stuff And I finally said, you know, that's okay If you want to take out all the mysticism, but they will no longer be a historical novel because you've cut out all the history All the stuff you think is history is what I made up You know, I don't know what kind of horse is Road or what they ate or you know, I don't know what the house looked like because it no longer exists I made the real stuff up, but the mystical stuff is real