A Sitka-based author has taken a detour into young adult fiction, and the diversion has paid off with a national award.
Brendan Jones will receive the Green Earth Book Award in a virtual ceremony on Dec. 7 from Delaware. The award has been presented for the last 18 years by the nonprofit Nature Generation for exceptional work in a genre now called “eco-lit,” or literature which explores ecological issues.
But the novel didn’t come together until Jones was living in the Russian Far East on a Fulbright scholarship. Jones says writing during the pandemic informed the plot. In fact, Jones says his publisher believes that this is the first young-adult fiction to explore the impact of the pandemic on youth. In this case, the twin girls at the heart of the story have suffered the death of their mother, an emergency room doctor. And although they’re twins, a rare genetic twist means that they each have a unique experience of grief.
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