Listen to Lois Lowry read an excerpt from her new book of verse.
follows a young boy who must bear all of the world’s memories—including love, war, and grief—for his society, and it isfor scenes that involve euthanasia and suicide. For Lowry, discomfort, even personal discomfort, has long been something to analyze rather than avoid. Shy and a self-described “loner,” Lowry moved around a lot as a child because of her father’s career and struggled to fit in.
was inspired by a visit to her parents in a nursing home, where her mother kept reliving the death of her daughter, Lowry’s sister, Helen, while her father, who was losing his memory, had forgotten Helen entirely. Which was better? The result was, a testament to the pain and joy of remembering. A year after its publication, Lowry’s own son died in an Air Force accident.
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