6/28/2023 0 Comments Rj palacio![]() ![]() I worked on a first draft of it about eight years ago, and I spent two years on it. PALACIO: My son had a very, very vivid dream about a kid in the Old West with a half-red face, and I was like, that’s a really good image. RACHEL SIMON: This book is such a departure from your previous work in the Wonder universe. ![]() Speaking to Shondaland from her home in New York, where she wrote Pony and rode out the pandemic alongside her husband and two sons, Palacio opened up about her decision to leave Wonder behind, her process as a writer, and the years-long journey to create Pony that was as dramatic as the book itself. And don’t let the age of its protagonist fool you just like Wonder, Palacio’s latest book tells a story that will feel just as affecting and compulsively readable to preteens as to 30-year-olds, which is exactly what its author had in mind when she first set out to write it nearly a decade ago. Part Western, part magical realism, part coming-of-age tale, Pony is a novel unlike all others. Accompanied by his longtime companion, a ghost named Mittenwool, and the titular pony, who shows up at his door after his father is taken, Silas embarks on a quest to find his dad - and along the way encounters enough obstacles, mysteries, and close shaves to fill, well, a 285-page book. Set in the mid-1800s, just before the Civil War, Pony follows 12-year-old Silas, whose beloved father is kidnapped for reasons unknown to our hero. ![]()
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