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The 43-year-old author talks perspective, identity, and required reading.

Oh, yes. We were at a lazy river! I guess that's true. There's another way you could write that story, a kind of psychological story of marriage and children, but that's not what interested me about it. What interested me was the feeling of something, the metaphorical possibility of this river. I was with friends, and I don’t know if they would recognize that story as an account of their holiday.

A demonstration in Whitehall, London, organized by the Coloured People’s Progressive Association. The protesters carry posters and placards including a picture of Kelso Cochrane, a black man murdered in Notting Hill in 1959.MC: How does living in America and England change your perspective when you're writing about either place?I think of myself as somebody not at home, I suppose. Not at home anywhere, not at home ever.

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