 But I think you do a great job of avoiding predictability in your writing. The way the chapters would end was always surprising. I didn't see it coming. And also how it would go from world history and natural history to family history. Did you have any idea how many facets this book was going to have when you began the journey of it? I didn't really. At a certain moment, I thought it would be sort of a bestiary, a kind of personal bestiary story.