{"id":4519,"date":"2017-12-21T00:01:33","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T06:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4519"},"modified":"2017-12-20T17:20:06","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T23:20:06","slug":"my-kirkus-qa-with-celia-c-perez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4519","title":{"rendered":"My Kirkus<\/em> Q&A with Celia C. P\u00e9rez"},"content":{"rendered":"

“<\/strong><\/font>I’ve mentioned in a few interviews my desire to see more stories about brown weirdos, because that’s something I never saw as a kid \u2014 brown people who were outside the ‘mainstream.’ Growing up in a predominantly immigrant neighborhood and attending schools with a similar demographic, there weren’t many kids who were into books or writing or art or music. And that’s not to say that those two things don’t go together; I just never saw it in my sort of insulated world. I didn’t start making zines or really get into punk until I was in college, but these are both things that if I’d had any exposure to as a twelve-year-old, I would have eaten up.\u201d<\/font><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Over at Kirkus<\/em> today, I talk with debut author Celia C. P\u00e9rez<\/a><\/strong>, pictured here, about her middle-grade novel, The First Rule of Punk<\/em><\/em> (Viking, August 2017). <\/p>\n

The Q&A is here<\/a><\/strong>. Next week, I’ll follow up here at 7-Imp with some more of the zines in her book! <\/p>\n

Until tomorrow …
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