![]() ![]() Surfacing is about a young woman searching for her father. But if there’s another book by Margaret Atwood that inspired me, it’s Surfacing. It’s a wonderful story, I can’t say enough good things about it. ![]() I wasn’t thinking of The Handmaid’s Tale at all, I read it so long ago. How much did the work of these two authors inspire you while writing your series? The Chemical Garden contains elements reminiscent of both The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood and The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. DeStefano talked with PW about the underlying themes of the Chemical Garden trilogy, which concludes this month with Sever (Simon & Schuster), and introduced her new series for YA readers, The Internment Chronicles, scheduled to launch in spring 2014. After being kidnapped and sold to a wealthy physician, 16-year-old Rhine becomes enmeshed in a race to find a cure for the virus that is striking down adults in their 20s. Lauren DeStefano’s Chemical Garden trilogy of dystopian novels for YA readers paints a harrowing portrait of the unintended and tragic consequences of modern society’s relentless pursuit of perfection. ![]()
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