![]() In fact, at one point she wrestles with whether or not one of the characters she uses in her book is cultural appropriation, an issue that comes up a lot lately in the press for artists like Katy Perry and Iggy Azalea. For those looking for more diversity on their shelves, Darcy has a very lovely GLBTQ love story and she is Indian. She falls in love, she struggles with writers block, she has her heart broken and more. ![]() Here, she delves into the New York YA literary scene, with an in depth look at the journey to being published. ![]() In our world, Darcy is delaying her first year of college and packing up her belongings to move to New York. There are bad people here, people who are after her, people who want to teach her about this new world.There is a childhood murder mystery, a man who wants to steal the lives of the spirits, and a little bit of romance. Or something like ghosts as she can slip back and forth from our world into the in between place. Lizzie slips into the ‘Afterworld’ to escape a terrorist attack at the airport late one night. ![]() One of the most interesting parts of this book is seeing how the real world life of Darcy effects the novel that she is writing.ĭarcy’s novel is titled “Afterworld”. Told in alternating chapters, each chapter of Darcy’s journey to get published is juxtaposed with a chapter from the novel that Darcy is writing. It is the story of a teen author, Darcy Patel, who is writing and publishing her first novel. ![]()
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