Actually was drawn from our financial struggles trying to build this house in the berkley hills. But it also sort of shows you how real life intrudes into your work and how we either can listen to it and put it into it or try to ignore it. I usually choose to sort of put everything thats going on around me in the world when im reading what i find intellectually curious into the work, no matter what the story is. So lets turn our attention a little bit to these characters you have created, 9, i think, characters, all very extremely different from different backgrounds. You spoke just now about wanting to find an authentic voice for each of them and working from the inside out. So how do you go about creating specific voices for a jewish russian character by way of yokohama, for an African American character, for all these different characters . I know you worked with specific actors. Did they help at all . What was the process there . Absolutely. In terms of the African American charact
On the same page is our monthly actually bimonthly book club that the library sponsors. This month, march, the book of the month is the samari gardens. How many are you have read this book in thats fabulous and gale is blushing in front of me. Its my pleasure to introduce gale. Gale was born and raised in san francisco. Her combined ancestory a chinese mother from hong kong and japanese father from hawaii gave her a unique asspect much the language of threads, dreaming water and others. Please, help me welcome gale sukiama. [applause] so that means if you have read the book you will not be buying the book . [laughter]. Im always feel a little embarrassed because i looked back and i kept think thanksgiving book was published in 1993 who wants to hear about it now . I feel honored that we call it those in the know or good friends of mine call at this time energizer bunny. Its the book that somehow kept going all these yeersz. I will tell you up front it was a book i thought that may be t
On the same page is our monthly actually bimonthly book club that the library sponsors. This month, march, the book of the month is the samari gardens. How many are you have read this book in thats fabulous and gale is blushing in front of me. Its my pleasure to introduce gale. Gale was born and raised in san francisco. Her combined ancestory a chinese mother from hong kong and japanese father from hawaii gave her a unique asspect much the language of threads, dreaming water and others. Please, help me welcome gale sukiama. [applause] so that means if you have read the book you will not be buying the book . [laughter]. Im always feel a little embarrassed because i looked back and i kept think thanksgiving book was published in 1993 who wants to hear about it now . I feel honored that we call it those in the know or good friends of mine call at this time energizer bunny. Its the book that somehow kept going all these yeersz. I will tell you up front it was a book i thought that may be t
On the same page is our monthly actually bimonthly book club that the library sponsors. This month, march, the book of the month is the samari gardens. How many are you have read this book in thats fabulous and gale is blushing in front of me. Its my pleasure to introduce gale. Gale was born and raised in san francisco. Her combined ancestory a chinese mother from hong kong and japanese father from hawaii gave her a unique asspect much the language of threads, dreaming water and others. Please, help me welcome gale sukiama. [applause] so that means if you have read the book you will not be buying the book . [laughter]. Im always feel a little embarrassed because i looked back and i kept think thanksgiving book was published in 1993 who wants to hear about it now . I feel honored that we call it those in the know or good friends of mine call at this time energizer bunny. Its the book that somehow kept going all these yeersz. I will tell you up front it was a book i thought that may be t
On the same page is our monthly actually bimonthly book club that the library sponsors. This month, march, the book of the month is the samari gardens. How many are you have read this book in thats fabulous and gale is blushing in front of me. Its my pleasure to introduce gale. Gale was born and raised in san francisco. Her combined ancestory a chinese mother from hong kong and japanese father from hawaii gave her a unique asspect much the language of threads, dreaming water and others. Please, help me welcome gale sukiama. [applause] so that means if you have read the book you will not be buying the book . [laughter]. Im always feel a little embarrassed because i looked back and i kept think thanksgiving book was published in 1993 who wants to hear about it now . I feel honored that we call it those in the know or good friends of mine call at this time energizer bunny. Its the book that somehow kept going all these yeersz. I will tell you up front it was a book i thought that may be t