Check out my guest blog post at "Literacy in Place," a website about rural literacy and literature for youth.
Here are the first two paragraphs to get you started:
I live among high rises and along crowded streets. I navigate parking restrictions and rush hour commutes. I wake to sirens in the middle of the night and wait seemingly forever for the next bus. And within a fifty-yard radius of my home there are two to three times more people than were in the small town in which I grew up."
Get ready for Kid America: A Novel of Inheritance and Survival, coming November 3 from Mission Point Press