![]() ![]() 8), a YA novel that has already drawn comparisons to Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and William Golding’s The Lord of the Flies. Liggett boarded her own train and immediately started writing The Grace Year (Wednesday Books, Oct. You set up these girls on these pedestals just to knock them down.” “This girl was now competition.” Liggett pauses. ![]() “I knew that look, like she was fair game now, she was prey.”Ī woman passed by soon after, “drawn to that same energy, but what I imagined for entirely different reasons,” she adds. “She was right on the verge of womanhood, and a businessman passed, instinctively looking her way, like stem to stern,” Liggett recalls. Kim Liggett, the Bram Stoker Award–winning author of The Last Harvest, Blood and Salt, and other novels for young adults, was standing at the departures board in New York’s Penn Station when a teenage girl waiting with her family caught her eye. ![]()
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