“Benny takes refuge from the voices by spending hours, sometimes entire days, in the public library. This, also, was inspired by Ozeki’s own biography. She spent hours in the library as a child and then worked in her college library. She recalls time spent deep in the stacks, stringing together book titles into ‘found poetry’ and sketching out characters for future novels. ‘I don’t think I was a very efficient worker,’ she says with a laugh. ”
July 23, 2021
Publishers Weekly
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