Depression is always in the details.
Each of us will have to make the choices that allow us to be the largest versions of ourselves.
There is no end to what can be said about the world
It's always gratifying to hear from a passionate reader, and as a longtime educator, I'm especially pleased and heartened when that reader is a young student who is inspired to write me and let me know that my book has helped him or her find her way.
The point is not to pay back kindness but to pass it on.
Literature is about being a complex, contradictory human being.