I’m going to tell them to burn the castle down and make your life ok. It was important to me,” Margaret Owen told me after we had a lengthy discussion on the final season of Game of Thrones, “especially as I’m writing for young adults, that I don’t leave them with this message of: if you’ve had a hard life or a hard time, you’re never going to escape from it and you’re going to die.
“The needle that I was trying to thread,” Owen told me, “was to tell a story that accurately reflected this lack of privilege that in a way was realistic but not transgressive or not taking a story that belonged to someone else.”Īnd reader I have to tell you - she absolutely succeeded.įie’s anger was a curious thing, sometimes tempered and unwavering as cut steel, sometimes raw and unstoppable as a cut vein. Yes, this is a world in which people can wield fire and heal wounds, where 16 year old girls can use a bag of teeth to hide her trail from her pursuers, but it also firmly grounded in the experiences and voices of our world.
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