“You know, I don’t look at that as a good thing. It’s unfortunate that it’s timely. It’s unfortunate that it is still relevant. And it just — it didn’t even feel like I was writing about history. It just felt like so present day and in the moment. And I know this book is historical fiction, but when I look at it, it’s not history, and it doesn’t feel like fiction. It is very much our reality right now and for a long time before right now.”