Anthropologists are great at novelistic observations. I would be thrilled if this novel would encourage anthropologists to write what they see in fictional form.

Every fictional thing I wrote gave me strength to write another and another. By the end I wasn't remaining true to anything but the story I wanted to tell.

I'm very interested in the way people interact emotionally.

I've always thought of writing as sort of active communication.

There are certain tribes in the middle Sepik that eat raw bat. A certain kind of raw bat is a delicacy.

I've also done things that put me in odd situations.

I don't like stories where I'm being given pages and pages of detail.