The thing that really surprised me about strip malls in California, specifically Los Angeles, is that they have some really fantastic restaurants.
I think the suicides in my first book came from the idea of growing up in Detroit. If you grow up in a city like that you feel everything is perishing, evanescent and going away very quickly.
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