Humaira

Humaira asked Intisar Khanani:

Hello! Love every one of your books (esp. darkness at the door!!). I was wondering: How old is Bren? Can't wait for the new releases!

Intisar Khanani Ha! I love this question! So, Bren himself is not exactly sure how old he is thanks to his tragic backstory (TM), so neither am I. In thinking about his age during the writing process, I drew from my own grandparents' background (and even some of my uncles) whose births were generally recorded as "the summer of the typhoon that swept away so-and-so's house" or the like - but when their families were uprooted, suddenly there was no community memory of what year that was, and so they only have an approximate knowledge of their age. It's close but not precise. (I still remember when one of my uncles was trying to pin things down and managed to work out that he was actually two years older than he thought--he was not happy!!) XD Bren also lost his home community, and so any estimate of his age would be just that. I would guess he's in his early twenties, not too much older than Rae. :)

Thanks so much for reading, and for this question!

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