![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And that's what actually drives- it doesn't drive me- it actually pulls me into story writing. It's not what I know, but what I don't know. You see, I mean, the whole fuel for writing fiction is curiosity. And so when I saw that Middle Eastern name in that newspaper article about that woman's house, I began to wonder well, what if my colonel bought that house and that began the book. And he said to me once, you know, that he used to work with kings and queens and presidents and vice-presidents of entire countries by himself and now he serves candy and cigarettes to kids who "don't even know who I am," he said. He was working at a gas station for the first eight hours and then in a shoe factory. And I saw that the man's name was Arabic and it wasn't Persian, but earlier in my life I'd known a Persian man who was a colonel in the Shah's air force who found himself in the United States working 16 hour days in menial jobs. Yet, the man who bought it in a fair and square legal auction was under no legal pressure to buy it back, or to sell it back, and he wasn't sure he wanted to in this real article. They evicted her, sold it off and then discovered they had the wrong house. Question: How did you come to write “The House of Sand and Fog”?Īndre Dubus III: It began with a newspaper article of a woman who was evicted from her house for failure to pay back taxes she said she didn't owe. ![]()
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