then frank mentioned adrian nicole, and this is very different from random family. i read a lot of great nonfiction. >> brooke, romance among kids, every big problem for the families? >> the first part of the question? >> romance in high school. did the kids have to hide it from their family? and between tibetan and chinese children and hindus and indians and pakistanis? >> i don't know if there were any indian kids at the school. a lot of kids from bangladesh, and definitely a lot of kids from pakistan. there was hostility between the tibetans and chinese. not across the board but in the book i wrote about an incident that happened where a tibetan -- it was nwang. who was not the president but he organized a lot of the students for free tibet meetings at the high school. and he made a flier, and handed it out in the cafeteria. come to students for a free tibet. we'll teach you how to read and write in tibetan. one african kid showed up. that was great. but the chinese -- a group of chinese boys got a ahold of the flier and wrote, don't go to tibetan club, come to c

it is to be an example of really good immersion reporting like harper airing right for adrian nicole leblanc. you can tell it everywhere that the depth -- from the depth of detail how much time was spent being, interviewing, recording, thinking. so i naturally wondered how much time did you spend? how many days free with the school? hominy student-teacher interview and how did you decide what was enough? >> i don't know how i decided that was enough. i think that my tasks to say but with enough because it was basically keeping in with all of my notes. i spent a lot of time at the school. i was therefore an article that i wrote. frank was an editor at "the new york times" in a wrote about the prominent international high school. and saddam was the first amount of time they spent their then they went back and spent a year porting. but the following year i was still in touch with the kids in the following year still in touch with kids in reporting until basically went to the printer. so it was a lot of time, a lot of notes in my life is on hold basically until this finished. >> at the i