Was there a time when you felt alone like Melinda? How did you handle it?Ī few weeks before ninth grade started, I was raped. Heather: In your book Speak, you did such a good job of portraying a person who is able to distance herself completely. I made a point of getting outside for plenty of walks and filling my nonwriting time with healthy and happy activities. Getting into the mind-set of an anorexic young woman was a painful experience. Corporations want to create body anxiety so they can more easily sell their products. But everywhere you look, you see distorted images and ridiculous stories designed to make people feel bad about the way they look.
Our culture sends plenty of signals to teens that cocaine and heroin are dangerous. Eating disorders are the worst kind of addiction. It was hard and scary to go in the head of an anorexic. Was it hard or scary to go so deep inside the head of a suffering anorexic? Those years of feeling confused and alone have a lot to do with the kind of books I write today.Įmily: Your book Wintergirls is one of the most powerful stories about teenage mental illness I've ever read. My family's life changed dramatically-we moved a lot, were broke, and worst of all, my parents couldn't or wouldn't talk about what was going on. That was when my father's PTSD grabbed him by the throat. I was a shy, happy little girl, but things became complicated and sad when I was in middle school. Writing about anxiety and depression comes naturally to me because I've dealt with both for most of my life.
Have you struggled with these kinds of problems before? Karri: As someone who has struggled with depression and anxiety, I was wondering how you write it from a teenager's point of view so well. Read on as she answers your questions about her difficult past, writing from different POVs, and inspirational women like Maya Angelou.
Her latest book, The Impossible Knife of Memory, brings us into the chaotic life of Hayley Kincaid, a high schooler whose father is suffering from PTSD-a situation familiar to Laurie from her own childhood.
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