Alina Adams Interview by Leah Grisham

No matter how big any situation is, I think about how it affects individual people. Stalin has been credited with saying, “One death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.” (Though the evidence is spotty, if he didn’t say it, he certainly wouldn’t have disagreed with it.) So I try to focus on the one. In the Spanish Civil War scene, it’s a tiny squirmish, not even a full battle. And yet it’s still so devastating to Rose that it affects pretty much every decision she makes for the rest of her life. When it came to the political situation in Rojava, I admit, I had a hard time keeping track of the factions, the geography, who was on who’s side and who they were fighting at any given moment. But that didn’t matter as much as the story of a mother chasing after a teen-age daughter who up and decided to play revolutionary. That’s what keeps the story grounded. And that’s what makes it universal.

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