L.A. has the largest jail system in the country.

You got people that been in jail just like one time and their life can't get nothing because of whatever mistake they made.

I stole some ground turkey because I wanted to feed my family. We was hungry.

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Where would we be without good? No.

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It's a rhetorical question, sir.

But where would we be without books? from kCRW and kCRW.com I'm Michael

Silverblatt and welcome to bookworm. Today my guest is a novelist Affinity Konar. She's making her debut

with Little Brown with a novel called Micheling.

There are many words that people have been using.

Intense, powerful, Affinity's editor uses the word shattering, and I think that is a very good word to use.

The novel, Michelin, is about two of the twins who were kept in the zoo at Auschwitz

that was overseen by Dr. Joseph Mingola, and it is about their bond.

It's well known that twins know what each other are feeling,

sometimes over great distances.

And the terrifying Dr. Mangala became interested in knowing whether if you tortured one twin would the other be in pain.

Could you in some way sever the bond?

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