This week, Ira spoke with William Anderson, author of “The Price of Perfect.” In this frank episode of “Ira’s Everything Bagel,” William talks about why he decided to write about the “racial divide” as a novelist rather than as a non-fiction writer; why he wrote about being frank on both sides of the equation; why he was warned off about writing the book after submitting his first draft; how the tree in the novel is a metaphor for America; why social and traditional media have failed us on the race debate; and why the story that chronicles the conflict between a modern-day Atlanta developer and the preservation of a historic site rooted in the city’s dark history leaves him both optimistic and pessimistic about the future.
