Are we the social justice side of ourselves? Are we the creative side of ourselves? Are we the responsible, pragmatic side of ourselves? Then we take on that mantle, we live it.”Īs for her audience, Kuipers doesn’t see herself as writing specifically for teens. “As a teenager, what’s exciting and interesting is trying out the different people we could be. Kuipers likes writing about teenagers because it’s an age when our choices make us who we are. I ask myself the question, ‘What if?’ I’m interested in who we are when we’re put in difficult, strange situations.” “I’m interested in how we as people cope with what life throws at us when it’s weird and strange. “I’m interested in how Lark deals with the mysterious thing that happens to her,” says Kuipers. In the book, Lark gets texts messages on her phone, from whom she doesn’t know, that seem to come from another world. It is sophisticated, but grounded in the character of Lark, a cool girl who longboards, who writes and plays music with her band, who has a big gig coming up and yet who still mourns the death of her mother three years before and is worried about her dad’s health. Kuipers explores the idea of parallel lives and “infinity point” in the book. Now, however, Kuipers is the award-winning author of four young-adult novels and her publisher, HarperCollins, is calling Me (and) Me “a riveting, high-concept novel with heart.”
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“It didn’t really work as a book, partly just because I didn’t know how to write a book and partly because it was a really, really complicated book to try and write as a first book.” She tried to turn the idea of split lives into a novel, but it was too soon. “I was really interested in what would happen if you met yourself and you could talk to yourself in the other life that you’d not been able to live.” The book idea goes back to one Kuipers had when she wasn’t much older than Lark. That gripping moment evolves into something quite mysterious in the novel. I tread water, frantically looking one way and then the other. Lark’s boyfriend dives in but hits his head on a rock.
See Video A canoe ride at Pike Lake has grave consequences for Lark, the teen protagonist in Alice Kuipers’ new novel, Me (and) Me.Ī little girl is drowning. A riveting, high-concept novel with heart, Me and Me is about what it feels like to be torn in pieces, and about finally finding out who you really are.ĬTV Saskatoon News at Noon: video interview – Click HereĬTV News Literally Speaking: video clip – Click HereĪuthor, author: Alice Kuipers on her latest, Me (and) Me
As Lark finds herself going down more than one path, she has to decide: Which life is the right one?Īlice Kuipers, the award-winning author of 40 Things I Want to Tell You and Life on the Refrigerator Door, is an expert chronicler of the teenage heart, and she takes her work to new heights here. She must live with the consequences of both choices. Lark chooses, and in that moment her world splits into two distinct lives. But Alec hits his head on a rock in the water and begins to flail.Īlec and Annabelle are drowning. Lark and Alec are closer, and they both dive in. Annabelle, a little girl she used to babysit, is drowning in the nearby reeds while Annabelle’s mom tries desperately to reach her. The two take a canoe out on the lake, and everything is perfect-until Lark hears the screams. Lark has written a killer song to perform with her band, the weather is stunning and she’s got a date with gorgeous Alec. It’s Lark’s seventeenth birthday, and although she’s hated to be reminded of the day ever since her mom’s death three years ago, it’s off to a great start. Chapters Indigo | Amazon | McNally Robinson
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