I’m interested in how wars affect people who didn’t choose them. SP: My reasoning was: I’m not interested in war as a subject of my books. It’s pretty nervy to have a war in a book that nobody knows anything about. RS: In the first book there’s a war in the background. It’s easier to take out electricity if they’re trying to hide. And, frankly, the other big reason for the home in the woods is because choosing not to declare a setting, time, or space, meant I had to have something without modern conveniences. In the previous book she was much more of a mentor than in this one. Sara Pennypacker: No, it’s more about what was ideal to support the story and Vola’s role in it. The feeling of Vola’s house in the middle of the woods, and the little house that Peter is building for himself - it’s like, “This is heaven.” Is that your idea of heaven? I don’t mean theologically. Roger Sutton: The first note that I made in your book was “peach pie,” which protagonist Peter’s (unofficial) guardian Vola makes for him. But now, with Pax: Journey Home, she has. Talks with Roger is a sponsored supplement to our free monthly e-newsletter, Notes from the Horn Book. To receive Notes, sign up here.Īs we learn below, Sara Pennypacker knew she was not going to write a sequel to her 2016 novel Pax.
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