Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
We first meet Bobby and Feather not in The First Part Last but as peripheral characters in Heaven, Ohio. (Source)
According to Johnson, kids are far more interesting than adults, and life experiences during childhood are far more influential. Young people for the win. (Source)
When Johnson saw a young black African American boy with a little girl on the train in New York, she started asking herself what his story might be. Boom. Novel idea. (Source)
Although Johnson writes stories that have universal themes, she makes a point of writing African American characters because she remembers what it was like not to have any characters look like her. (Source)