What I remember about race relations in the 1990s is that you showed your awareness by saying you didn't see race, that you were colour-blind.

In fiction you're not often writing about the typical; you are interested in outliers, the points of interest. Part of it comes from feeling I was the only Asian or person of colour... another part comes from my personality: I'm an introvert, and my usual survival mode in a large group is to stand by a wall and watch everybody.

As soon as I could write, I was writing stories.

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