Jeffrey Eugenides , American novelist
said about Family, Time, Past, Sense, Writing...
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"At the same time, it's a family story and more of an epic. I needed the third-person. I tried to give a sense that Cal, in writing his story, is perhaps inventing his past as much as recalling it."
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- Jeffrey Eugenides