India, Nov. 21 -- * Are you the same person when you're sleeping?

* Why did animal control send a person to help that squirrel? Wasn't there an animal that could help him?

* Will I grow tall like papa? Will I grow a beard like him? Will we have to fight to see which one of us is the real papa?

It's been an incredible four years of crowdsourced responses, since the poet and author Sarah Manguso first posted her query on X: "What's the best question a child has ever asked you?"

She was stuck at home in LA at the time, home-schooling her then-eight-year-old son, Sam, amid the pandemic, while going through a divorce, and working on a novel about domestic abuse.

"I really needed a side project that was simple and fun," she says.

While wo...