I always wanted it to feel like this was a separate time and place, in a way. You might remember from the books they don’t text each other, really, and there’s no social media. I wanted to make sure that the essence and the core of the characters were all still who they are. But I also think some things are the same. It’s been a really long time! In many ways, culture has moved and changed, and so have I. The books came out 13 years ago, but I’ve been working on them for longer than that. That was my goal: to approach adaptation as if I was writing it for the first time, in the present day. How did you translate this story, which was originally written over a decade ago, into a 2022 groove? In honor of a TV series finally coming to fruition, Jenny Han, the master behind affairs of the heart and the show, sat down to unpack her sweet coming-of-age tale.
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