Her hockey-playing, ultra-feminine sister, Ellis, is particularly adept at providing gossip from their high school that the family might not otherwise know. After all, her New York dress-for-success, high-heel-wearing mother, Claire, rarely ever leaves the house in Unity Valley and is always available to detail Astrid’s failings-along with those of her underemployed pot-smoking father. It’s ideal.” Loving someone like Dee doesn’t feel like that.Īstrid is lonely, a fact she regularly ingests with her daily doses of Rolaids, despite not being alone. When you send your “love” and thoughts out to the riders of an airplane flying above your head, can the passengers feel it? Does it make a difference to them? Does unconditional love exist? Can you love a girl and not be a lesbian? If she loves you back, are you then a lesbian? So far, all seventeen-year-old Astrid Jones knows is sending her “love” to the airplanes feels like freedom. And I have to say it was extra exciting to connect because I have the deep honor of being in an upcoming anthology for teens with her!. I hoped Amy would be interested in doing an interview here, and she was! It was a complete joy to connect with her.
But so does the air and wind and miles between Astrid down on her picnic table and those passengers up in the sky. Small town PA makes itself heard loud and clear. You just have to read the book.) Ask the Passengers is a heartbreaking and heartful story and while there is no doubt that its characters leave their mark on the reader, for me the landscape did too. (No, they don't actually hear her and thus they don't actually respond to her, but Amy gives them monologues and they are dynamic and specific and even magical in the ways that they connect.
My heart was especially tugged at by the refrain throughout the story of Astrid sending her love to the passengers in the planes that fly above her, and their responses to her. I loved the book, or to be more exact, I think the words I used when I described it are "madly in love." And this is true. King's Ask the Passengers for BookBrowse.
King about her young adult novel, Ask the Passengers, an original portrayal of a girl struggling to break free of society's definitions.Ī couple of months ago I was lucky enough to review A.S. Interview Tamara Ellis Smith interviews A.S.
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