The November Girl
Lydia Kang
Publication Date: November 7, 2017
Publisher: Entangled Teen
Publication Date: November 7, 2017
Publisher: Entangled Teen
Hector has come here to hide from his family until he turns eighteen. Isle Royale is shut down for the winter, and there’s no one here but me. And now him.
Hector is running from the violence in his life, but violence runs through my veins. I should send him away, to keep him safe. But I’m half human, too, and Hector makes me want to listen to my foolish, half-human heart. And if I do, I can’t protect him from the storms coming for us.
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The world building in The November Girl was easy—because it’s contemporary and it’s already exists!
The book takes place on Isle Royale, on Lake Superior. But the hard thing was—I’d never been there.
So there was a flurry of research, Google Earth perusing, book buying, and image hunting that I had to do to learn all about the area, the weather, the transportation, and what life was like on the island. Once I’d had a really good grasp, and I could literally see and feel my way around the island in my mind—then I wrote it.
Months later, I found a local who frequented the Island and could beta read the facts about the island for me, and then—finally—in August of 2016, I got to visit! It was breathtaking. So unspoiled, so lush and wild and beautiful.
And to top it all off? I was so sick on that trip. I’d gotten a terrible cold, and I felt just like Hector on that island (who gets sick in the book as well). It was kind of perfect!
Lydia Kang is an author of young adult fiction, poetry, and
narrative non-fiction. She graduated from Columbia University and New York
University School of Medicine, completing her residency and chief residency at
Bellevue Hospital in New York City. She is a practicing physician who has
gained a reputation for helping fellow writers achieve medical accuracy in
fiction. Her poetry and non-fiction have been published in JAMA, The Annals of
Internal Medicine, Canadian Medical Association Journal, Journal of General
Internal Medicine, and Great Weather for Media. She believes in science and
knocking on wood, and currently lives in Omaha with her husband and three
children.
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