Yulin Kuang on writing her first novel, Loving New Jersey and adapting Emily Henry

I always knew he was go be about A scriptwriter And A novelist WHO had known each other In high school, And THE archetypes of WHO they were In high school. I doesn't to want has TO DO any of them research because I was busy has THE time, SO he was just going has be about adaptation.

But look back, I was expenses SO a lot time while reading Emilie [Henry] books And thought about What resonated with Me In them, And I was as, What sharing injuries TO DO Emilie And I have you? THE things that I resonate with In her work are THE manners grief And friendship, And all of these things that are not necessarily THE hot, happy rooms. SO I kind of research has look has What kind of sharing hurt I could give This novelist And THE scriptwriter, Or they are both future has THE even hurt Since different angles.

New Jersey East A huge character In THE book. Say Me more about that you grown up up there, isn't it?

Partially, I did, Yes. I was born In China, When I was three We moved has Wichita, Kansas, And When I was eight We moved has New Jersey, And SO We kind of jumped up around different suburb of New Jersey, I think because My parents were trying has send Me has THE best public school For each grade. SO I moved A plot. I feel as people should romanticize New Jersey A little little more.

What about New Jersey felt RIGHT as A setting For This novel?

I knew I research he has be as A East Side, West Side kind of culture shock. I Above all identify as be initially Since THE East Side, And I think that When I First of all came out has THERE, there was A kind of A culture shock For Me. I remember going has A interview In A complete J Crew suit that I had spent money on, because he was A important interview For Me, but he was SO not THE atmosphere! And SO I research has to use that geography has separated them A little little more.

What TO DO You think THE two characters see In each other?

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