It's funny because everybody thinks of me as Jewish now. But, yes, I've also written about turning Catholic. And I'd feel guilty. I'd feel like a lapsed Jew. And it's also about superstition, that story.
Religion is one more way the girls can define themselves.
Of course I'm interested in the Asian-American experience. I'm very interested in the different realities, not just my own ethnic group. In Mona , I wrote extensively about what it means to be Jewish. And I was happy about that. That's one of the greatest challenges, as a writer, that I set for myself.