It’s a very capacious and infinitely expandable voice. Using the ‘we’ voice allowed me to weave them all in. In my research, I had run across so many fascinating stories, and I wanted to tell them all. At first I tried telling the story from the point of view of a single picture bride, but this approach felt too narrow and confining. Using the ‘we’ voice allowed me to tell a much larger story than I would have been able to tell otherwise. What do you think was the benefit of writing in the ‘we’ voice, the first-person plural, as you got into the world of these mail-order brides? It’s a stylistic technique novelists rarely employ. JO: I’d say it has one central main character, which is everyone: the collective ‘we.’ No one ‘I’ is more important than any other. PR: Would you say that The Buddha in the Attic has no central main character, or that it has many central main characters?
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