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mark wish's avatar

Cool int! & what a great premise for a novel: What if my dad was a *spy*?!

mark wish's avatar

Why didn't *we* think up that one?

Christine Sneed's avatar

You can make it yours. Fathers are as nuts and varied as any creatures on earth. As I suppose are spies. 🤪

Aimee Liu's avatar

Thanks for reading, Mark! I think every Third Culture kid wonders if their parents were spies. Certainly true of most families we knew in India during the 1950s, and when my bf was a Fulbright scholar in the 1970s the CIA routinely attempted to turn them into operatives. Many declined, but still...

Christine Sneed's avatar

The CIA - up to no good as seems their MO.

mark wish's avatar

What a fascinating milieu!

Teresa Dovalpage's avatar

Thank you for sharing all this! I just bought gaining, can't wait to read it.

Christine Sneed's avatar

That’s terrific! Thank you for reading the interview and Aimee’s book!

Amy Brown's avatar

Aimee is an incredibly talented author and teacher and I’m so delighted to have found her on Substack and to learn from her as part of her mentorship in MFA Lore. She is wise and generous with all the amazing content she produces. Glad to see her profiled here.

Christine Sneed's avatar

Thank you for reading the interview! 📗

Joshua Irving Gershick's avatar

Thank you this lovely interview!