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TI: But just to give you some feedback, I, I read it and I've been in this field for now, like, nine years. And I really felt you did an excellent job.
JO: Oh, thank you.
TI: I mean, oftentimes when I read these historical novels, I mean, they're, they're really stretched, or there are inaccuracies, and I didn't find that at all with your book.
JO: Oh, good. 'Cause I didn't want people to notice the history too much. You don't want, I didn't want to oversaturate the book with historical facts.
TI: But yet you had these, these little things that would come in...
JO: Just enough, that's all I wanted.
TI: And I really, I really enjoyed that.
JO: Oh, good. I'm glad that it worked. 'Cause I just, that was another thing I was wondering as I was writing the book, was can I pull it off, and also will it feel true to people who actually went through that experience? That's, that's what I really wanted to know, I didn't know.
TI: And in particular, I really liked the third chapter, too --
JO: Oh, thank you.
TI: -- from the boy's perspective. And there was that, in particular, I just -- and maybe because I'm male, but I could, I could imagine sort of that's what a boy would, sort of, go through and think and feel. Especially there was that, not only you talked about how he'd always look for his father and see him in these different men, but just that one sequence where he did walk under the, the guard tower, and under his breath would say the, "Hirohito..." that, you know, I can just see myself doing that at, at ten years old or something.
JO: Right, you just can't help but say the word, the forbidden word.
TI: Yeah, that was really good. So I just wanted to give you that feedback. From a, from a historical standpoint, I thought you did an excellent job.
JO: Oh, that's really, that's very nice to hear. Yeah, 'cause you don't, the last thing you want is for a reader to get hung up on something that's wrong or to get distracted, yeah.
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