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The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff
| The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff | |
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| Category:Teens | |
| Reviewer:Jill Murphy | |
| Summary: Tremendously creepy take on the changeling legend with a very attractive central character and a contemporary yet timeless feel. Fans of supernatural fiction - romantic and horror - will thoroughly enjoy it. | |
| Buy? Yes | Borrow? Yes |
| Pages: 384 | Date:January 2011 |
| Publisher: Simon & Schuster | |
| External links:Author's website | |
| ISBN: 1847388396 | |
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Mackie lives in Gentry, a prosperous but quiet town. People are good and kind and the trials and tribulations of other places have traditionally been absent from Gentry. Recently, however, things have felt less secure. People are getting nervous and it just won't stop raining. Mackie isn't doing too well either. His allergies to blood and steel are getting worse and worse and his health is beginning to fail. It's getting more and more difficult to avoid the truth...
... because Mackie is different.
He knows it. His parents know it. His sister knows it. His friends know it - especially his best friend Roswell, the most loyal friend a person could
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Brenna Yovanoff
MFA, Creative Writing, 2006
http://brennayovanoff.com/
How did your major prepare you for the job, the life you have now?
The MFA program helped me in a lot of ways, but I’d say the biggest thing was probably that it taught me how to take critique and also to finish what I start. Before grad school, I always had a lot of half-finished manuscripts and little snippets lying around, but over the course of three years, I learned to just sit myself down and write until I got to the end.
What do you consider to be your greatest accomplishments (both personally and professionally)? How did your experience in the English Department help you with these achievements?
My first novel, The Replacement, debuted on the New York Times list, which was huge and disorienting and wonderful. It wasn’t a possibility I’d even really considered and so it was almost too inconceivable to really take in. Even now, I sometimes have a hard time believing that it happened. My most recent novel, Paper Valentine, was just named as one of NPR’s best books of 2013, which was definitely one of my proudest moments.
What did you like about the English program? Why did you choose to study at CSU?
I’m a local girl, so as unexciting as it sounds, that factored pretty heavily int