![]() ![]() I had to set a novel overseas to realize the importance of setting in fiction. ![]() As it is, I worry about having gotten it right, wondering if Japanese people-in particular those from the region-would recognize the place as I described it. While I like to think that I have a pretty good imagination, there's no way I could have imagined a foreign setting (let alone one as vivid and weird as Shika) without having spent a fair amount of time there. The novel is set in Shika, the nuclear power plant town on the Noto Peninsula where I lived for a year, after graduating from college. Since my novel, If You Follow Me, came out this month, I've been surprised by the number of readers who have asked me if I've ever been to Japan. She is a regular contributor to the San Francisco Chronicle and the New York Times Book Review. Malena Watrous is the author of a novel, If You Follow Me, which was the winner of a Michener-Copernicus Award (and of a Glimmer Train Fiction Open prize in 2001). ![]()
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