Describe your desk
It's glass top and L shaped.
Where did you grow up, and how did this influence your writing?
I was born in San Francisco, but when I was two years old my family moved to the suburbs in Redwood City. My family was very dysfunctional. My father was an alcoholic, while my mother had a character disorder. In spite of their issues they were very religious so they sent us to a Catholic school, where nuns picked up where my parents left off. I can't speak for my sisters (I had no brothers), but this unbalanced view of reality certainly fueled my curiosity for another point of view.
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