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The Tortoise Wins the Race

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Come Thou Tortoise, Jessica Grant, Knopf Canada

by Neil Smith
04.07.2009

NS: Your narrator, Audrey, was born on February 29 of a leap year. So although she’s lived 24 years, she’s had only six birthdays. What intrigues you about a character who’s half-child and half-adult? JG: What I feel isn’t so much intrigue as comfort. I’m comfortable with Audrey because her status as leapling makes literal [...]

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