"At least for me personally, drugs aren't an essential part of having a surreal experience, or what you might call a higher experience."

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I did a lot of this through writing flashbacks. Many of the flashbacks took place at Cal's school and I eventually cut them because they didn't seem essential and they slowed the pace of the story in the first third of the book. They were essential to me, though, in that I learned about my characters.

— Edan Lepucki