"I really love the YA readership, teens. I like how their minds work. They're just coming into their own; it's an exciting, new, and scary time for them. They are learning how the world works. It's feverish and passionate. Also, I liked my own teen years. It's a time for us to wake up. We're no longer blind children led by our parents." Nolan hopes her books provide a chance for teens "to enter a private world and stop and think about their lives," as she told
AAYA. "They need this chance to go somewhere private and think about things that they might not be able to talk about with their friends."
Nolan's books have dealt with neo-Nazis, religious zealotry, and the lies a family promulgates to supposedly protect its children. Her characters--Hilary, Charity, Miracle--are young women on the cusp, emerging into an uncertain adulthood from shaky adolescence. They are young women who must learn to stand up for themselves--to throw off the influences of adults and peers and find their own center in a turbulent universe. Hilary in If I Should Die Before I Wake becomes a time-traveler to learn a lesson of tolerance, literally trading places with the Jews who she professes to hate.
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