Celeste
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Kim van Alkemade:
Hi! I just read your book Orphan #8 (finished it about an hour ago actually). I feel the impact of your novel has greatly changed the way I look at people of the LGBTQ+ community who are Jewish. I'm a leader of my school's Gender Sexuality Alliance (GSA). I was wondering if you'd be comfortable sharing your experience as a Jewish LGBTQ+ woman and as an author and how that has impacted you? Thank you so much!
Kim van Alkemade
Hi Celeste, thanks so much for reading my novel! I'm not sure my personal experience is all that interesting or useful, but there are so many great resources through the American Library Associations LGBT Roundtable I'm sure you can find some great reading for your students. http://www.ala.org/rt/glbtrt
It is really important for me, though, to have LGBT characters in my historical fiction as I think it reclaims a historical space for us that is often invisible since so much was hushed up in the past. I'd also recommend that you check out the book Hidden From History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past, it's a fantastic resource.
It is really important for me, though, to have LGBT characters in my historical fiction as I think it reclaims a historical space for us that is often invisible since so much was hushed up in the past. I'd also recommend that you check out the book Hidden From History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past, it's a fantastic resource.
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Angela
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Kim van Alkemade:
I could not put this book down. The book opened my curiosity to search other institutions at that time that experimented on children. I was shocked to see how common it was. Your book is very informative in a very good story kind of way. Just wanted to say thank you for the book. I was wondering if you were aware of Willowbrook in Staten Island?
Susan
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Kim van Alkemade:
My reading group has spent time discussing the covers of books. There was significant importance placed on the cover design, there were many different opinions of the cover and meanings, including insights that hadn't occurred to me.I've become curious about your great book and it's covers.How many different covers are there for Orphan #8? What do you consider when you choose of or approve a cover?
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