“There’s a temptation to rush through the canon as young as possible,” says the thriller writer, whose new novel is “The It Girl,” “but you can only ever read a book for the first time once, and I like the idea of having that to look forward to.”
Riku Onda’s “Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight,” set over a single night, explores the role a couple may have played in the death of their hiking guide.
“Between the ages of, say, 16 and 21, … I read fiction as a malleable aspirant hoping for a world-shattering experience,” says the author, whose new novel is “The Great Man Theory.” “Maybe I’ll recapture some innocence in my later years.”
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