The writer and artist shares a preview of 'White Bird'.
is bookended by the story of Julian, the boy instarts a year later. Julian’s in a new school, and he seems to regret the way he treated Auggie Pullman. He is working on a class project and asks his grandmother, who lives in France, to retell a story she already told him, briefly, that was recounted in. So his grandmother tells the story of her life, which is the heart of the story of. Then it ends with Julian again, hearing his grandmother’s story, and—well, I don’t want to give away the ending.
I know this chapter in the world’s history is gruesome, and so difficult to discuss — much less, try to explain to kids. But it’s necessary. They need to know. The facts are the tools they need with which to fight that kind of thing ever happening again. Of course, it took the diligent and persistent guidance of the only adult — other than Mr. Browne — who realized the kid needed some help, and that was his grandmother. His parents were kind of useless in that regard. They were too blind to see that their son needed help — not academically, not socially really, but morally.
But there was another motivation, to be sure. I had been working on a different novel when the 2016 elections happened, and I found that, suddenly, I couldn’t do what I needed to do to finish. When you write, you have to isolate yourself a bit. Turn off the social media. Hunker down in a quiet place. But there was so much happening in the world that I couldn’t not be a part of it. I put the prose novel aside.
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