 One of the things I've liked about just comments you've dropped is the way you read say scarlet letter is actually a novel of immigrants That maybe the characters wouldn't have behaved that way and in a quote-unquote home country Even a lot of hearty especially tests a favorite of yours You can read as a kind of immigrant novel coming from the countryside moving somewhere quite strange and To use that as a lens for interpreting what otherwise might seem like strange character behaviors But reading them through you is actually very rewarding. So through your eyes through your fiction Does that make sense to you at all? Yes I mean, I think what I'm responding to is the sense of displacement in all in those authors and in almost any author I mean even you know will a catheter you can read this way home or you can read this way So many authors you can read this way, which is why I think some years ago. I was asked this question By the New York Times book review about you know What was my problem with immigrant literature and I made a kind of maybe cheeky remark about how I didn't believe in it But this is it wasn't being cheeky. It was just being it was just saying what I felt was true Which is that this is something I've responded to in literature from the very beginning And if I didn't have this response to literature then You know these writers wouldn't have fed and inspired me the way they did Because there would have been a quote-unquote barrier between their experiences and their times And mine and that that shouldn't be the case, right? That's not what literature does Literature does the opposite and it allows us to cross over those boundaries in a beautiful way in a magical way