Nolong and Yahosh Bonner: 'Living Our Ancestors' Wildest Dreams'

Speaking of family dynamics, I wanna start out, the book, which is so good, I really enjoyed reading it, but the book says that there were some difficult conversations as you all got on...

It was Zoom calls, right?

Mm-hmm.

Mm.

Um, to talk about this book, and I can only imagine, 'cause I feel like you have a bunch of siblings trying to remember, like, what happened and recall things, and everybody remembers things differently.

But I wonder, do you guys remember what any of the difficult conversations were as you joined together in collaboration to try to write this book?

Well, it's funny, because y- y- you say I was trying to recall.

Like, no, we all can recall, and we're all very assertive in what we-

[laughs]

... believed happened and how it happened.

And so it's just so funny to say, "Wait, that's, that's what your experience was? That's how you felt?" You know, so it was, it was fun.

It was hard.

Um, it was Zoom calls, FaceTime calls, uh, Marco Polo.

You know, we, we talk every day, but for us to all to be focused in on this one conversation about the book and our lives and our experiences, we realized really quickly that, um, Harry and Bonner, Harry Bonner and Deborah Bonner are Harry Bonner and Deborah Bonner, and they are our parents.

But all of us grew up with different parents [laughs]

[laughs]

And different experiences, and so it was, it was a lot of fun.

And it, it, I think it even helped us become even closer writing the book.

I think, I think a lot of it could have been just re- remembering some of the things.

And in the moment I think, because we were all connected and had each other, it, it was kind of okay.

But I think looking back on it, it's like, oh, that, that, that feels like trauma.

[laughs] So-

Has this, has this been a counseling session? I'm not sure.

N- this one-

Oh, man.

Speaking of family dynamics, I wanna start out, the book, which is so good, I really enjoyed reading it, but the book says that there were some difficult conversations as you all got on...

It was Zoom calls, right?

Mm-hmm.

Mm.

Um, to talk about this book, and I can only imagine, 'cause I feel like you have a bunch of siblings trying to remember, like, what happened and recall things, and everybody remembers things differently.

But I wonder, do you guys remember what any of the difficult conversations were as you joined together in collaboration to try to write this book?

Well, it's funny, because y- y- you say I was trying to recall.

Like, no, we all can recall, and we're all very assertive in what we-

[laughs]

... believed happened and how it happened.

And so it's just so funny to say, "Wait, that's, that's what your experience was? That's how you felt?" You know, so it was, it was fun.

It was hard.

Um, it was Zoom calls, FaceTime calls, uh, Marco Polo.

You know, we, we talk every day, but for us to all to be focused in on this one conversation about the book and our lives and our experiences, we realized really quickly that, um, Harry and Bonner, Harry Bonner and Deborah Bonner are Harry Bonner and Deborah Bonner, and they are our parents.

But all of us grew up with different parents [laughs]

[laughs]

And different experiences, and so it was, it was a lot of fun.

And it, it, I think it even helped us become even closer writing the book.

I think, I think a lot of it could have been just re- remembering some of the things.

And in the moment I think, because we were all connected and had each other, it, it was kind of okay.

But I think looking back on it, it's like, oh, that, that, that feels like trauma.

[laughs] So-

Has this, has this been a counseling session? I'm not sure.

N- this one-

Oh, man.