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I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
My parents are so amazing; they're brilliant. We try to take one step at a time and be wise about the decisions we make and keep our values and the things that are important.
I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things. My parents are so amazing, they're brilliant. We try to take one step at a time and be wise about the decisions we make and keep our values and the things that are important.
When they talk about family values, it's in a repressive way, as if our American tradition were only the Puritan tradition or the 19th century oppressive tradition. The Christian tradition.
America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.
It's fun when your kids reach a point where you can actually start talking about things.
There has to be a way to live the life you're accustomed to and not sacrifice things. Americans are not very good about sacrificing.
Real family values have gone down the drain in modern families.
People love talking about the banality of evil and the fact that ordinary people do bad things. I actually want to stay away from that.
