Kathryn Paige Harden

"One of my favorite books that I read when I was writing my book is this book called One of Us. And it's about the Norwegian mass shooter who shot all of those children at a summer camp."

"If someone wants a fiction treatment of this, I Know This Much Is True is a novel by the novelist Wally Lamb and it's written by the perspective of an unaffected identical twin whose identical twin has paranoid schizophrenia."

"if you have ever done 23 and me or some sort of direct to consumer genetics company you might have gotten like this is your genetic risk for Crohn's disease or this is your genetic risk for Parkinson's or Alzheimer's."

"Andrew Solomon. He wrote Far from the Tree, which is about children who are very different from their parents in some way. So, deaf children of hearing parents, savants, whose parents were like, we don't know where this chess or music or math came from."

"There's a British writer Oliver Burkeman who has this great newsletter called The Imperfectionist and one piece of advice he gives is about letting your energy and your heart be local."

"The book is called Original Sin: On the Genetics of Vice, the problem of blame, and the future of forgiveness, and it's out in early March."