ones and readers rally around this book, I don’t really have any words. I’ve noticed that readers, myself included, feel incredibly connected to you through Between Two Kingdoms. When you shared that your cancer was back, they were, and are, so emotionally impacted. Do you feel that sense of connection, and what do you think it’s about? I do and it’s one of the The Point Skate Haring Edition Shirt and I love this greatest privileges of my career, and I don’t say that in a sort of B.S.-y way. As a reader and as a lifelong bookworm, that sense of connection is one of the most special feelings, where you feel seen or understood or just weirdly entwined with someone through a page. I initially never saw myself as someone who was going to write in the first person—joke’s on me. It’s never felt worth it to me to inhabit the first person if I don’t really push myself to be as vulnerable as I can be. I really
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