Book Title: LINH LY IS DOING JUST FINE Character Name: Linh Ly How would you describe your childhood? Typical, I suppose. I went to school. I went to parties as a teenager. My parents worked to keep me fed and the refrigerator full. They sometimes fought. Parents always fight, don’t they? Significant other? (Laughs.) Pass. Biggest challenge in relationships? I’m not what guys want or think they want. Where do you live? In the metroplex, you know, that unending mass of cities that connect and surround Dallas and Fort Worth in Texas. It’s not really inspiring. It’s highways and heavy traffic. There are always so many cars — people driving somewhere at all hours. It’s huge and anonymous. Do you have any enemies? Sure, but they don’t know it. How do you feel about the place where you are now? Is there something you are particularly attached to, or particularly repelled by, in this place? It’s all that I know. I like the night drives I take. I love driving for hours on end. It’s my most peaceful experience. Do you have children, pets, both, or neither? Lollipop is my cat. She’s the best….

