![]() 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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