Let me offer Hattie back

I want to know where I am on the list and I also don’t want to know where I am on the list.

Both this and A Thousand Splendid Suns are remarkable. I listened to the audio of the latter whilst commuting and was sobbing in my car at the end.

It’s not shallow at all to celebrate your accomplishments. Congratulations on your find. If it had been me, I would have had to hold myself back from signing it.