people like joni mitchell and carol king. storytellers, people who could change the world.matter who sung the song, they were still the source of that message, and that is what i aim for. people whomentioned could change the world with their storytelling. narrative works. again, not everything has to be socially redemptive, so why the call for you to use the word miracle continent at some point, in some way, to change the world? >> well, i do not know if i am as ambitious to change the world, but i do feel -- the reason i had the version of the bands is that i feel the a lot of people are not represented in pop music and popular culture, and i wanted to find a way to speak for people. so many people spoke for me as a kid and made me feel less invisible, and i wanted kids or whoever was listening to my music not to feel so voiceless. tavis: you entered, so i have to follow you in, emily. who do think is underrepresented or who you are speaking for? >> i do not know if it is a specific group of people, but people who come to my shows are people who feel like outsiders. they a

you know, the great singer-songwriter joni mitchell once observed that the seasons go round and round the painted ponies go up and down, we are on the carousel of time. which indeed we are. you know, parenthetically in another of joni's songs she sang, woke up, it was a chelsea morning, which it is. [laughter] wilbut that's beside the point. dea has invited here today to tell you something about my forthcoming novel. "we are water," a story set both in new york and also like several of the earlier novels, in three rivers connecticut. now, the template for the fictional three rivers is my nonfictional hometown, norwich connecticut. you know, when you mentioned that you've come from that stage are likely to conjure in peoples mind images of leafy bedroom towns, residents commute to manhattan and unwind at the country club and send the kids to prep school. but i come from the other connecticut, east of the connecticut river connecticut. we are more feisty than fashionable. we are more liverwurst than pat day. boston and providence have a greater poll as the new york so drop our eyes can