"I want readers to engage with the book on their terms and come to their own conclusions. If a reader thinks Jo is unlikable or stressful or funny or loveable, then I think the reader is right."
"I recognize myself and my generation in the activism of today’s youth. Their commitment is helping me to remember who I was. But I recognize that it is their time to speak."
"It’s an excitement that is fueled by discovery, an excitement with what it’s like to hunt down evidence and learn to recognize possibilities and clues..."