Usually, the creating of the book happens while I'm writing the book. I start with Chapter One, with a few ideas and a handful of characters, and the book grows from there.
Lily KingThere are certain tribes in the middle Sepik that eat raw bat. A certain kind of raw bat is a delicacy.
Lily KingI'm always interested in a claustrophobic situation where people might be powerless to do things.
Lily KingI didn't major in anthropology in college, but I do feel I had an education in different cultures very early on. My parents divorced when I was eleven, and my father immediately married a woman with three children and was with her for five years. When they got divorced, he immediately married a woman with four children. In the meantime, my mother married a man who had seven children. So I was going from one family to another between the ages of eleven and eighteen.
Lily King