We've all had them. Those strange, convoluted conversations with strangers on interminable plane journeys, embarked upon to pass the time. They are rarely the inspiration for sparkling novels. But when the award-winning author Nell Freudenberger struck up a polite conversation with a Bangladeshi woman on a 2006 flight to New York, she found her new acquaintance's life story was just as gripping as the book she was trying to finish.
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