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And the Mountains Echoed

by Khaled Hosseini (Goodreads Author)

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Apr 13, 2026 08:33AM

“I've written myself into a corner. The first two-thirds of the book were a breeze to compose, but what do I do with the ending? Where do I leave my protagonist, now that there's a hungry ghost in the mix, and no clear resolution?”
― R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

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“personality makeover. Or maybe not. The more I think about it, the more this sounds like the plots of Ratatouille and Mulan combined.”
― R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

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“I dub historical exploitation novels: inauthentic stories that use troubled pasts as an entertaining set piece for white entertainment.”
― R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

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“and who thought that Asian identification boiled down to being annoyingly obsessed with bubble tea and BTS were diluting the radical force of the diaspora canon.”
― R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

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“We write books in a fixed moment in time, in a specific phase of our consciousness and development. That is why reading words written years ago feels alienating. You are no longer the person whose existence depended on the production of those words.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, Translating Myself and Others

tags: alienation, author, writing, writing-process

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