The real question is: How do you react? What do you do next? Evade responsibilities? Bury yourself in work? What do you do? All three of my novels take up that question, although none gives an answer.

The strange thing was, he wanted to like everyone. He just couldn't find a way to do it.

Even though I may not intend it when I set out to write the book, these places just emerge as major players in what I'm doing, almost as if they are insisting on it.

My book is traditional. It runs counter to the post-modern spirit.

There are things in this universe that we cannot control, and then there are the things we can. . . . Let fate, coincidence, and accident conspire; human beings must act on reason.

My father is a practicing criminal law attorney in the Seattle area.

Fiction is socially meaningful.