![]() ![]() You are a reader/writer, so I know you have the same addiction/hoarding problem and that your sympathies are with me.) Bridge of Clay was published in the US in 2018. (Full confession: I actually have about two hundred unread books on my book shelves at home, but most are not YA and most have been there for more than two years. Over the past two years, I’ve collected a stack of YA novels that I haven’t had time to read because real life has been interfering. Though the parameters of the YA novel have changed over the years, this truth remains: teens read to find themselves in books (as do we all). Whether a book is YA depends on much more than the age of the characters. Looking at Bridge of Clay helps us to understand that the answer is no. If you’re writing a novel that focuses on the protagonist(s) during the teen years, you might wonder if this automatically makes it a Young Adult work. What are the parameters of the YA novel? Is Markus Zusak’s Bridge of Clay still YA? I asked myself this as I read this gorgeous novel. ![]()
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