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Boots!

Where would we be without boos?

Where would we be without good?

No, to bird.

It's a rhetorical question, sir, but where would we be without books?

From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblatt.

This is Bookworm.

And at last, Andrei Asimamon is back.

His new book is called Find Me.

It's published by Faris Strauss and Cheru. And it is in certain ways a following book to call me by your name. Did you want to do a following book?

A following book is such a wonderful way to describe it,

because everybody uses the word sequel, which is not the right word.

It's not what it is.

Absolutely not.

But it is inspired from Call Me By Your Name.

I tried many times to pick up where Aalio left off, and it was always a disaster because

I was writing, you know, Sonov, call me by your name. And so I abandoned it until one day, about

three years ago, I decided to pick it up again and start not with Aalio, which was the default way

of doing it, but with his dad.

Yes, in fact, this novel, Find Me, is surprising because it's a generational novel.

It's three generations, really, by the time you've come to the end of it.

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