From her interview with Anna Metcalfe for the Financial Times:
Read the complete Q & A.What books changed your life?
Great Expectations by Dickens and Jane Eyre by Brontë had a profound influence. I’m not sure any book has ever changed my life.
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What is the strangest thing you’ve ever done in the name of research?
Going to the morgue in New Orleans to look at dead bodies, a very illuminating and humbling experience. I saw several bodies and will never forget it. I described it later in one of my novels.
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Where is your favourite place in the world?
The Garden District of New Orleans.
--Marshal Zeringue