is very young, and she says that all she really remembers of 9/11 was the weather. why did you choose to tell the story from her point of view?
well, i was in high school on 9/11, and when i started to do research for this book i felt that people who were my age and younger had a unique perspective on it all. people my age were just starting to reach some sort of consciousness of the world when 9/11 happened, and people younger than me have never really known anything other than what’s been called the “post-9/11 world.” so that’s why the book follows such a young perspective.
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