tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475165538485567980.post277595145814163866..comments2023-10-07T03:23:24.917-05:00Comments on Boswell and Books: Newly Releases in Paperback about Adoption from Mei-Ling Hopgood, and (go figure) Dan Chaon (with an Event Plug, Of Course)Daniel Goldinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11536282665165900502noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475165538485567980.post-57249591959830729342010-06-07T10:11:30.879-05:002010-06-07T10:11:30.879-05:00Daniel - Thanks for this thoughtful post. I hadn&#...Daniel - Thanks for this thoughtful post. I hadn't seen the interview with Dan Chaon in Poets & Writers. He definitely makes a good case for why adoptees make intriguing novelists: <br /><br />Often novels try to explain the world to you. That's something I'm not interested in. I'm interested in taking things that people have neat packaged ideas about and unwrapping them and making them more complicated. For example people have pat ideas about nature and nurture. I was interested in taking those ideas apart and messing them up. <br /><br />Now I will have to give LUCKY GIRL a try!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00074042860556228872noreply@blogger.com