. >> banks: no, you wear it, it's a literal ankleeral;& bracelet. >> banks: that and you're on the internet smith: yeah. >> banks: you're, you're on, on the registry of convicted sex offenders, yeah. >> smith: welll and the act that the book begins with.. >> banks: right. >> smith: .the, the, the kid wanting to look on the computer to see am i really listed. >> banks: is it really true? ll.lis.listing of registered sex offenders? >> banks: and indeed there he is, his face is. >> smith: did you have the opportun..-i think i know the answer to this, but i want you to talkkabout this process portion of this, did, did you have the opportunity to go down to that encampment. >> banks: oh yeah. >> smith: .and learn about that.and essentially based the world that you ppesent here on the reality of the world that you saw there? >> banks: yes, i did. i mean, i could walk over, it was a very simple matter, and i did and spent some time down there. but i, i, i went as a novelist who wassbecoming increasingly curious about this. >> smith: yeah.& >> banks: .world and, and, and caught up in it, not like a