But then I realized I didn't want to go there. Martin Wilson: Well, when I first conceived the idea, I thought I might want to have Sam's POV. Gee Henry: So, why do you think you chose the two characters you did (Sam's sister and his friend Josh) to narrate the book? I spoke to Wilson last month about point of view in books, media spectacles, sex scenes in books about teenagers, and the state of YA in the South. It has added immediacy when put into the context of recent, real-life, years-long abductions. The ensuing narrative plays out through the eyes of Sam’s sister Beth and Sam’s former friend Josh, and shows the very-current topic of being an “ally” in a fresh way. His newest one, We Now Return to Regular Life, is a profoundly darker story, a look at what happens to a family and several communities when an eleven-year-old boy named Sam is kidnapped, held hostage for three years by a much-older man, then returned. His first YA novel, What They Always Tell Us, was the winner of an Alabama Author Award and was a Lambda Award nominee. Young Adult novelist Martin Wilson grew up in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where much of his fiction takes place.
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