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Suzy And Franny

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Hello Ali Benjamin, thank you for taking the time to talk and have this interview with me, let me start by asking you questions. Before we start I would like to tell you that I thought your book was great, so how do u feel about writing a book that was a national book award finalist? I feel very grateful for everyone that has helped me to get this far and extremely happy that my book made it all the way to the finals. That's beautiful Ali so through the book how did you try to fit Franny's death into everything that was happening in Suzy life? Since Suzy and Franny were best friends I felt like I should of put franny as memoirs instead of having her be in the present. So why did you decide to write the book in Suzy's point of view? Since Franny …show more content…

Where I grew up we had a huge neighborhood and all the kids would come out and play and a lot of those people inspired me to write this book so I decided to have there names as characters. In the begging of the book you dedicate the book to curious kids everywhere how did you come up with the idea? Most of the book is about how Suzy was curious about franny's death and how she did everything in her power to find out the answers to all her questions so I dedicated it to curious children everywhere. Why did you pick the animal jellyfish to be the main animal Suzy researches for the death of Franny? Since Franny's death was in the ocean I thought that jellyfishes would make the most sense than any other animal in the ocean. When and where did you decide to write this book? I was on a road trip with my wife and as we were driving through Texas and the idea just came to me so I started writing it right away in the car but I did write a lot of the book in a coffee shop right by my house. What was your attended audience for this

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