![]() ![]() With its tremendous following, East has recently been optioned to be a feature-length movie. “I still get these amazing fan letters from 22-year-old girls who say that they read it when they were 10 – and it’s the book of their life.” “People who read it and loved it just really loved it,” she says. This is perhaps most potent with East, one of her most influential books. Her relationship with her readers is a significant driving force for Pattou. Though the book follows eight different perspectives and uses free verse throughout, reviewers such as Anne Jung-Matthews from the School Library Journal have recommended it to reluctant readers “given the book’s realistic portrayal of a Midwestern town, the lyrical narrative and the readily relatable protagonists.” Pattou injected the same relatability into her most recent effort, Ghosting. “These young girls who read it just see how resilient and resourceful and brave and persistent Rose is,” Pattou says. ![]() East offers readers Rose, the kind of protagonist readers can feel attached to and glean inspiration from. “And I always loved that about the fairy tale: that it’s the girl who rescues the prince.”įor Pattou, empowering and inspirational concepts are appealing messages that recur often in her books. “ East is about a girl setting off on a really strenuous and dangerous quest to make right something that she did wrong and to rescue the prince,” she says. ![]()
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