Latest in Notebooks: Third Quarter 2010

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How was it for you to write from the perspective of the adult Dara?ABBOTTShe came very naturally to me.INTERVIEWERYou certainly deserve credit for really taking risks early on in your career and paving the way for other authors to explore the violence in the all-American girl.

Latest in Notebooks: Third Quarter 2010

you drew on the true story of mass psychogenic illness or the twitching epidemic among girls in upstate New York.Or do you mean the one has turned into the other in the way that everything gets watered down? Last years evasive.So many of my favorite books in the past year or so—foremost Raven Leilanis Luster—have been thrilling to read.

Latest in Notebooks: Third Quarter 2010

Abbott has also always struck me as akin to an anthropologist; she not only explores the hidden subcultures of teenage girls but reveals the coded language and shared ethos of their cliques and sects.about a woman who becomes unknowingly involved with a serial con man with a string of women in his past who were similarly duped.

Latest in Notebooks: Third Quarter 2010

INTERVIEWERDid you encounter any resistance to your vision of the teenage girls in Dare Me?ABBOTTSome.

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