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Festival of Books 2014

Eduardo Santiago talks about his book "Midnight Rumba" during "Fiction: Writing Character & Culture" on Sunday.

Eduardo Santiago talks about his book “Midnight Rumba” during “Fiction: Writing Character & Culture” on Sunday.  (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)

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Fiction writers discussed what it means to write novels about characters and cultures with specific ethnic identities, while also debating who is able to tell those stories, in a panel called “Fiction: Writing Culture and Character” at the Festival of Books on Sunday.

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Margaret Wrinkle reads from her book “Wash” during the panel.  (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)

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Rebecca Walker talks about her book “Ade,” which deals with a college student who falls in love with a Swahili man.  (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)

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Laila Lalami reads from her book “Secret Son” during the panel discussion Sunday.  (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)

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Festival of Books visitors attend the discussion in the Salvatori Computer Science Building at USC on Sunday.  (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)

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