"Characters, even though they’re minor, shouldn’t be a device. No person should be a device to move the plot along. That’s when you run into problems with stereotypes. I strive, in my journalism and my fiction, to make characters as complex and complicated as they are in real life…"
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Novelists from the United StatesNon-fiction authors from the United StatesJournalists from the United StatesStanford University alumniTaiwanese Americans
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On how she writes characters in “Motherhood and Migration: An Interview with Vanessa Hua on ‘A River of Stars’” in Los Angeles Review of Books (September 13, 2018)
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