I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo. It was a good debut novel for me to have published. I was 26 or 27 when it was published. I already had a kid and would soon have a second.
“I only ever worked on interiors, and an interior is an interior. I don't know what they did about exteriors.”
“If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes.”