Dark books do appeal to kids because they have nice, sheltered lives - and they also appeal to children who are going through pretty hard times themselves.
“I've always been fascinated by numbers. Before I was seventeen years old, I had lived in twenty-one different houses. In my mind, each of those houses had a number.”
“As I write at the end, if we step back and face the enormity of the torrent, then we have taken the first step to imagining what we might want to do about it.”