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Our family has lived in Iran for 2,500 years, and Iranian Jewry has the long history in that land.
The long history of conversations that family members share contributes not only to how listeners interpret words but also to how speakers choose them.
As a child, I was an obsessive reader, as was everybody in my family all winter long with my father. I think I was only 8 when I read Edward Gibbon's 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.'
I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage.