Grace Galinski asked Lois Metzger:

I just finished reading A Trick of the Light. It was amazing and truly touching. You don't really hear much about boys/men being anorexic, but your book really showed that it can happen to anyone. It felt extremely real once I figured out who/what was telling the story, and I have a question. Why did you write it so that it was his anorexia telling the story? What made you think of doing that?

Lois Metzger Grace, thank you so much for writing and I'm so glad you liked the book! A Trick of the Light went through many, many drafts. Originally Mike told his own story. Then Amber told her side of things. Then his mom. The "voice" was always there--in everything I read about eating disorders, people spoke about a voice in their heads pushing them to more and more destructive behavior. With each draft, no matter the narrator, the voice got stronger and more present. At one point I was struggling with something and the voice told me, "Just let me tell it!" So I did. Thank you, again!

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