A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.

A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.

A lot of writers that I know have told me that the first book you write, you write about your childhood, whether you want to or not. It calls you back.

For me it was a lot harder to come to terms with the death of my grandfather than it was to come to terms with what's happened to the former Yugoslavia.

In my earliest memory, my grandfather is bald as a stone and he takes me to see the tigers.

No matter how grave the secret, how imperative absolute silence, someone would always feel the urge to confess, and an unleashed secret is a terrible force.

When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.