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An interview with Joel Agee

Author interview · 16 Jan 2022

The Stone World by Joel Agee

Memory and fiction, his characters and themes, his path into writing and translation, and working through quarantine.

Loosely based on the author's childhood, the novel follows six-year-old Peter, called Pira, growing up in Mexico.