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Young Adult Magazine interview with Clay Carmichael
YA: Tell us a little bit about your latest work. What is different about Brother, Brother?
CC: Brother, Brother explores customary young adult issues: coming-of-age, romance, independence; but what sets my seventeen-year-old main character, Brother, apart is that his story is also a political coming-of-age story. He starts out as a sweet, passive guy, someone who's just getting by from one day to the next, eking one out. It's all he can do to take care of Mem, his sick grandmother, and pay the bills. But when she dies on page one, he discovers he's got a twin and a rich, powerful family he never knew he had. He can't spectate and sleepwalk through life anymore; he's got to think and act.
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http://www.youngadultmag.com/Browse/A...
CC: Brother, Brother explores customary young adult issues: coming-of-age, romance, independence; but what sets my seventeen-year-old main character, Brother, apart is that his story is also a political coming-of-age story. He starts out as a sweet, passive guy, someone who's just getting by from one day to the next, eking one out. It's all he can do to take care of Mem, his sick grandmother, and pay the bills. But when she dies on page one, he discovers he's got a twin and a rich, powerful family he never knew he had. He can't spectate and sleepwalk through life anymore; he's got to think and act.
Read the rest here:
http://www.youngadultmag.com/Browse/A...
