![]() I fall in love with my characters, and so it’s very difficult for me to let them go. Great fiction writers conceal the ‘lesson’ or the ‘moral’ or the ‘purpose’ inside the events of the story, so that it naturally occurs to the reader – the sense of a justice/injustice, the outrage. ![]() They’re just standing there and suddenly you feel the blow. Real fighters don’t show you what they’re doing. There’s the huge windup, the close-up, the spectacular kick. “The difference between real fighting and stunt choreography. “It’s a delicate thing,” says Fitch, of activism in novels. I think it would be good to have more of an awareness.” “What I am writing about are things that are happening in this world,” says Bond, “and about finding a path to some kind of freedom. Far from it,” says Danticat.īond’s advocacy for victims of human trafficking, especially with forced prostitution, is central to the book. “But there are novels that show us realities so stark in such a compelling way that they inspire us to act. ![]() ![]() Danticat says nonfiction can serve activism well. ![]()
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