with my grandmother. >> my grandmother was the prototype for mama yaya and if it had.her, i wouldn't have become a writer. >> that's a great influence. >> claire williams from loudens borrow, alabama. claire, you have been reading along with the group, what is your question? >> my question is, i was just wondering, do you have any personal ties to new orleans, the setting of your book? >> no, i don't. i think it's kind of magical that i'm drawn to new orleans, i have been since i was a child and i think i must have lived there in another life. >> wow. >> kind of a little more supernatural. >> oh, yeah. >> thanks so much for your question, claire. now we have got sabrina fernand fernandez. what's your question? >> hello, jewel, my question is, it was a terrible disaster for hurricane katrina, so it took a lot of lives, of so many people and so many different communities so and in new orleans, how and why did you change the ninth ward? >> ninth ward was the area that was most devastated. that was the area where the levees first broke and right now you'll go visit the nin