![]() Has your daughter read Mockingbird? What was her reaction? He was the person in her life who understood her best, her link to the outside world. Was this almost like Caitlin losing her translator? In your story, the brother of the main character, Caitlin, is a victim of a shooting incident at his middle school. My thoughts went to what it must be like to be related to one of the victims and to how a kid like mine who sees the world so differently, who doesn't feel heard or understood, how frustrated she gets and how frustrated other people get with her because they don't understand how her mind works. Everybody in Charlottesville knows somebody at Tech. And it wasn't something you could avoid thinking and even talking about. But, it was just such an incredible waste. Maybe if somebody could have gotten him help before he got to that state. ![]() It was so horrific and so overwhelming and I spent a lot of time trying to process my thoughts on something like that could happen so close to home. ![]() I know it sounds like a weird combination. ![]() I had been jotting down notes, mulling over the idea of a main character who had Asperger's almost as an exercise-trying to see the world through her eyes, but I didn't have a compelling plot.Īnd an idea came to you after the Virginia Tech shootings? ![]()
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