Enter Rao, the debut novelist who has everyone talking this spring.

That was the main drama of the story.

What is the last book that made you cry?The Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro.

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Carlos Avila Gonzalez; Flatiron Books

What is your favorite part ofGirls Burn Brighter?The ending.

Which book made you a forever reader?Little House on the Prairie.

I had to make him capable of love.

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Carlos Avila Gonzalez; Flatiron Books

In the year in which the story was set, Islamabad hadnt yet been founded!

It was a factual error.

To want to change anything but factual errors in a creative work … that way lies madness.