6/29/2023 0 Comments Nightbird by alice hoffman![]() ![]() Yes, the book comes as the book, ready for its audience. So when you get a story idea, you already know which audience you’ll be writing for? When I was a kid, even if my mother and I weren’t talking, we would be reading the same books at the same time. ![]() And I also wanted Nightbird to be a real mother-daughter book – a book mothers and daughters could share. With Nightbird, I wanted to write a book for my 10- or 11-year-old self. I write for different audiences because I’m always writing for myself at different points in my life. ![]() I believe that the best books are the ones you write for yourself. I never know why I write something for a certain age group. Why did you decide to write for this audience? You’ve written many novels for adults and teenagers, as well as several picture books, and your latest, Nightbird, is a middle-grade book. We recently spoke via telephone with the author, snowbound in her Boston home, and she talked about how being an “escapist reader” turned her into an “escapist writer.” Hoffman last spoke with PW in 2006, upon the publication of her YA novel Incantations. The prolific, award-winning author has written for a variety of audiences for more than 30 years, for adults as well as for children her latest book, Nightbird, laced with her signature magical realism, is for middle-grade readers and tells the story of 12-year-old Twig, whose family has lived under a witch’s curse for 200 years. ![]()
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