I moved around 13 different times before I was in fifth grade, not having money, not having a lot of friends.
I get plenty of time to re-engage with the world I'm trying to depict, so I'm not always living in these parallel worlds.
The anti-apartheid prisoners on the island, like so many in every age and nation, found that Shakespeare had a peculiar ability to gentle their condition. They used to gather clandestinely to read the plays; on one occasion, the book was passed around for each man to mark his favourite lines.

