It’s about good kids trying to stay that way in a bad, bad place – and some parents and teachers who got lost making the same journey. It’s harsh and harrowing at times, but that’s what you get in a war story. This is a coming-of-age story about the things that force us astray when we’re young. The one-liner on it is: Three freshmen join forces to survive at a crumbling Catholic high school that has become a dumping ground for delinquents, zealots, and the unlucky. In your book Brutal Youth, can you tell my Book Nerd community a little about it? To me, that makes the rest of the book that much more terrifying. It’s haunting in an extremely emotional way, exploring the bonds between found fathers and sons, and the mind-shattering experience of grief. I am blown away by how haunting it is – not just in a supernatural sense, although it has plenty of that. I’d have to go with Stephen King’s Pet Sematary. But once you begin that slide, it’s very hard to stop.Īnd what is your favorite book outside of your genre? The tragedy of the novel is … he may be right.
It’s about a powerful politician who has convinced himself he will only be able to help the downtrodden if he’s willing to be corrupt, to compromise his soul. My favorite novel is Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men, because I’m obsessed with how easy it is to go wrong while trying to do right. A lot happens in our lives, and a well-told story can help you see the things that might otherwise be lost or forgotten.īeyond your own work (of course), what is your all-time favorite book and why? They show us what we hope to be, or in the case of my novel, Brutal Youth, what we hope not to be. Stories are where we get perspective on ourselves. Why is storytelling so important for all of us? Terrible fates usually befell the characters. There’s a lot of power in creativity, and I after I got my hands on my first Stephen King novel, I had a great time telling strange little ghost stories where I was the only boss. But I fell in love with writing because it was a way to make anything I wanted come true.
I think most kids feel frustrated because someone is always telling you what to do, what to wear, where to go, what to say. Was there a defining moment during your youth when you realized you wanted to be a writer?
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