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I grew up in a home without books and whenever I saw a bookshelf I would ask my parents to take a photograph of me in front of one like people do on their vacations. I just wanted something I made to be there too. Now, other people are taking photographs of themselves with something I wrote!

I know what it's like to try to learn a language all by myself and to get it wrong and to have no one to ask if I am doing the right thing. I know what it's like to work a job nobody wants, to do good work and to be passed over or not be noticed and valued. I know what it is like to watch someone with a sadness they can't see. But it doesn't matter what I know or see - can I get a reader to feel that, to know and to see that too?