A lot of my writing is triggered by something true, either something I read in the papers, something I overheard-I am an inveterate eavesdropper-or something that happened in my very large, and very extended, family. And yet it is precisely those things that no one believes are real. (Petina Gappah)

A lot of my writing is triggered by something true, either something I read in the papers, something I overheard-I am an inveterate eavesdropper-or something that happened in my very large, and very extended, family. And yet it is precisely those things that no one believes are real.

Petina Gappah

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