What is your favorite book?
My favorite book is Otono del Patriarca, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Blew my mind first time I read it. A read for anyone who loves literature. Written in an unusually innovative style, the style itself overwhelms the subject matter and gives it a surreal dimension.
Where did you grow up, and how did this influence your writing?
I grew up under the hot Caribbean sun. I don't know how that influenced my writing. But I think that everything in my background seemed to have conspired to make of me a thinker.
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