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Goodreads asked Sarah Bates:

If you could travel to any fictional book world, where would you go and what would you do there?

Sarah Bates I'd love to live in North Bath, New York, the home of Richard Russo's wonderful books, Nobody's Food and Everybody's Fool. Those books turned me on to Russo's warm and funny writing style where he goes into the heads of his characters with such skill and delicacy I felt like I was part of the townspeople in every scene. That kind of writing draws me in like no other. It's a style I try to achieve in my own writing: intimate and arresting.

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