it was a nice audience when i walked in my brain was exat that timic, look at the people here. it's almost as good as last years. i said who did you choose last year. and the year before. and told me. i said do you realize they are dead already? >> i'm alive and shouldn't i pull in a little more? [laughter] to go off, thank you for coming. >> my pleasure. i just this month read your book dreaming water. and i was -- i'm very glad to have read it. i'm wondering 2 things. there seems to be more of an advocacy voice in terms of the discrimination of being you know an asian american. and secondly, warner's disease. i'm wondering how you got into writing about that? and the characters were wonderful. >> okay. your first question, first. you know to be totally honest, when i sat down to write dreaming water i thought this is the book that -- i had finished language of threads and written 4 books that took place in asia. because language of threads was a hate this word, the seekial to women of the silk i felt i came full circle and my asia period might have been done i wanted to write

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officials now talking about the man in the middle of a dicey at this point in timic fig diplomatic fightthis is all as hillary clinton arrives for talks. >>> a deadly car bomb assault in kabul after the president's visit to afghanistan. six people killed. taliban militants reportedly described in burkas attacked the compound housing hundreds of foreigners. >>> and criminal charges expected to be filed today in the death of florida drum major robert champion, whose death was ruled a hazing homicide. five band members facing possible felonies. >> thank you, christine. 31 minutes past the hour. >>> economic meetings between secretary of state hillary clinton and chinese officials are being overshadowed this morning by some new drama surrounding an escaped blind chinese dissident, a real human rights supporter. cnn learned that this activist chen guangcheng arrived at a medical facility in beijing. last week he fled house arrest in a daring nighttime escape and had been reportedly staying at the u.s. embassy. cnn's stan grant is covering these angles. he joins us on the phone from beijing wi