I'm kind of thinking now, seeing the world the way it is, if I had my druthers, they'd be considered cautionary tales, not aspirational. I don't know, maybe we've had enough anti-heroes for a while, seeing the country the way, the shape that it's in.
I'm more interested in depicting a reality that I'm more familiar with, which is intergenerational debt, struggling, single parenthood, and it's more interesting to me to write stories with characters who subvert these expectations of what an immigrant and a woman should and can be in America.
There's something kind of comically tragic about the idea that these tools that were meant to lighten our loads seem to be doing the opposite for some.
I almost feel bad for this generation, you know, cuz they had to go through like Zoom school and then prom was social distance and now they can't go to Mexico and get their first STD.
