And I said, “Wow, that’s really interesting that this very British buttoned-up guy - part of the canon of Western literature - had this crazy love affair with this Black Egyptian guy.” Later on, I read about his relationship with Mohammed. Forster was very middle-class, very buttoned-up, very British, and then he has this surprising other stuff: he’s gay. This guy in England, an older white man, seemed like part of a different world. I grew up in the Bahamas, bridging the time between when we were a British colony and. Forster was something that was always up on the bookshelves. When I was young, my mom was an English teacher and E. It seems to mix genre: it’s fiction, it’s written almost like it’s memoir, and sometimes the protagonist goes off on a sort of an essay. It’s a novel about a novelist writing a novel written by a novelist. What sparked the idea for this novel? Was it always going to have a narrative within a narrative?
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