5/31/2023 0 Comments All the bright places genre![]() ![]() ![]() “Violet” was wildly popular 100 years ago, but it started dying out in 1920. (The name Violet means “purple” and is one of the top ten most-searched names on. Once I had Finch, I worked to find “Violet Markey.” I knew I wanted a classic-sounding name and landed on “Violet” pretty quickly. That only made the Finch seem more appropriate. Later on in the book, he tells the story of a cardinal that killed itself by smashing into the sliding glass door of his house. At first I experimented with calling him Teddy, but he wasn’t Teddy. (Probably unconsciously influenced by Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird, one of my favorite books.) I liked the sound of Finch. ![]() When I sat down to write Finch’s first chapter, I heard his voice in my head saying, “I, Theodore Finch, being of unsound mind…” I never even thought about his name. It debuted in January and, in dual narration, tells the story of a girl who learns to live from a boy who intends to die, also known as The story of a boy called Finch and a girl named Violet.) ![]() (For those who don’t know, All the Bright Places is my eighth book and my first YA. Some characters are easier to name than others, and that was definitely true of Theodore Finch and Violet Markey, my two main characters in All the Bright Places. ![]()
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