You are a human animal.

You are a very special breed,

for you are the only animal.

Who can think, who can reason, who can read?

Hi, this is Michael Silverblad, and welcome to Bookworm.

My guest today is Harriet Dorr, the author most recently have considered this seora, published

by Harcad Brace.

She's the author as well of Stones for Ebarra.

And I wanted to begin by asking you something.

This book had a very odd effect on me.

Tell me what.

Sue Ames comes to Amapolis, is that?

Amopolis.

It means poppies in Spanish.

And she's in recovery from a loss of love.

And she imagines a divorce.

And she imagines that she'll stay in Amopolis forever.

And this book and this place seemed designed to turn everyone's expectations around.

Another woman who arrives there expecting to stay forever also doesn't.

She loses her lover. The woman who

at first refuses to answer letters from her lover suddenly rejoins him by the end of the novel.

So it seemed almost as if this was the place in which people learn how to have their expectations

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