I really try to avoid, you know, rolling out the history. The people are so important to me, and what happens to them, how they react, how things happen to them, this is what is important. I feel that if I can tell THAT story well, then people will go and Google the rest and fill in what they need to know.

I was interested in writing something that has meaning in the larger context of global conflicts anywhere.

Sri Lanka is a small island, and the war affected everybody. Everybody knew somebody who was killing or being killed.

Fiona McCrae is a really amazing editor. Really smart and very astute about what a story needs.

Every new thing is a result of everything you wrote before.

War defined my entire childhood and youth and most of my adulthood too - and in the US, it continues to do so.

There is no right and wrong, and precepts are for fools. Every thing is just as it is! And we must experience things without condemning them, because if we condemn them, then we are becoming too involved.