Are there a time for keeping your distance?

The time to turn your eyes away?

Are you conversational at all?

Oh, you know, my conversational kind of goes and come as I, is when I'm there.

Ah, okay.

When I'm there, it gets much better, obviously.

Yeah.

Well, correct me if I'm wrong, but you're currently teaching at Northern Arizona.

Your last two books were Boom and Red Summer,

and you also directed Ms. Sarajevo and Fools Russian.

Yeah?

That's right.

And you have a long...

The book, Fools Russian, is a a book, and the mystery was a documentary.

Okay, I have both of those in the box somewhere in Croatia, right in line.

Yeah.

Well, our class here, it's called European Politics, and it's made up of international and local students in Mexico.

And we talked about the war in Yugoslavia some weeks ago, and we wanted to hear more from you.

I was actually living in Croatia in 1994 at the tail end of the war, but I was 10 years old

and we didn't, our immediate family didn't see direct experience.

So I guess just to start, I gave them a pro-Serbian and a pro-Croatian perspective.

And myself being a Croatian, it's still kind of confusing for me, you know?

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