yiming asked Lisa Ko:

Did you conduct interviews with people impacted by immigration policies? I'm curious to hear more about if you did a lot of research for this book. Thank you so much for your book, I loved it so much!!

Lisa Ko Thanks, Yiming! I did do a lot of research for the book -- from reading to traveling to interviewing people.

Lisa, so happy you won this prize. No question. I, too, had a novel entered in Pen/Bellwether 2015. Looking forward to reading The Leavers. (Funny, unless I include a question mark, the email won't got through?)

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