DANIEL A. OLIVAS: What—or who—inspired you to create your wonderfully well-read, self-proclaimed misfit, Max Rodriguez (née Maxine), and tell their coming-of-age story?
FREDERICK LUIS ALDAMA: I’m a sucker for coming-of-age stories—and this since I first began clocking in serious time as a teen at my school and local libraries. Happenstance, along with meeting a series of kind, generous librarians had me page-turning exquisite formation narratives bursting with imagination and belly-aching fun by the likes of Gabriel García Márquez, Salman Rushdie, Günter Grass—and yes, other rather unlikely authors, at least for me, like Lawrence Sterne, Henry Fielding, and Rabelais.
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