Jenny: Anna K is a novel that is a reimagining of one of my favorite books, which is Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. I took the same sort of plot structure, but I moved it to modern-day using New York City and Greenwich, Connecticut, instead of Moscow and Saint Petersburg. In 2012, I was in New York City for Christmas with my mom. The Joe Wright version adaptation of Anna Karenina came out with Keira Knightley as the star. We went to see it at the Ziegfeld. It's so sad it's closing. We went to see it. We had this magical time. My mom had read the book in Korean and in English. I had read the book twice by then. We were talking about it. We had this great discussion about it and how tragic it was for the ending of Anna. Then I just kept thinking what it would be like in modern day. Then later that night, I couldn't sleep. I snuck down to the lobby of the hotel. I just was like, oh, my god, Anna Karenina is a book about first time, major time, that you're in love. If you wanted to translate to modern day, it needed to be teenagers now because obviously in the late 1800s in Russian society, they were all in their twenties and thirties. Now the first time you usually fall in love is when you're a teenager.