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Boots!

Where would we be without boos?

Where would we be without good?

No, Timberd.

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

From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblatt, and this is Bookworm.

This is a doubly exciting week for me.

First of all, I want to point out that the songs you hear on the show were written

for the show by the great, the extraordinary rock group, Sparks, who have been performing at Disney Hall.

The second thing I want to say is that the book I'm talking about this week, Pure Color by my guest

Sheila Hetty, took my breath away. I thought it was a flabbergasting book. You know, I don't have

anything on the show that I don't like. It doesn't seem to me to be important to tell people

what not to read. But I am very happy this week to say that you should absolutely read

pure color by my guest, Sheila Heddy. Her name is spelled H-E-T-I. I know you're all going to want to read this book.

Now, Sheila, one of the things, as I understand it, that determined the course of this book, and it occurs within the book itself, was the death of your father.

Could you talk about that a little bit because it's something that I feel very deeply about the death of my own father.

Yeah, he was an incredible man and an incredible father, and his death really threw me into a completely

new dimension somehow, because I just was so disoriented to not have him

here anymore. He wasn't a huge surprise. He had cancer, but I guess when it happens, it happens

quickly.

And I just, the world looked completely different to me after that.

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