i looked at that book and thought, why can't she read edith hamilton's -- youth hamilton's with-ologyas reading edith hamilton's mythology, i was writing at the same time. so, when i got to the part, when i read, when i happened upon the tale of jason and the argonaut's, that's when esch happened upon the tale of jason and the argonaut, and it just clicked in that moment, right? it seems to me, right, that esch would stop there and pay attention to that tale, because it's so different from all the tails that come before it. >> salvage the bones and two of your other novels, seeing, on, very sing, and where the line bleeds, take place in the fictional town of loss to vanish. you said before that is based on your hometown and where you are raising your family now. tell me more about that. >> yeah, this town is a fictionalized version of my hometown, which is the will, mississippi. it's a small, rural town in the mississippi gulf coast. that's where you know, i grew up in a way, i don't think a lot of people grow up. they don't have the opportunity anymore. i was very firmly rooted in a