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From Edan Lepucki, whose debut novella, If You’re Not Yet Like Me, is out now from Flatmancrooked and available here, comes a great look at the appeal of the young protagonist:

Teenagers have a real drive to be independent, to discover and define (or defy) their identities. And yet, they’re also powerless. They have their parents’ will to contend with, and their friends’ complicated codes of behavior. They have the secret shames of the body. They long for the purity and ease of childhood even as they fling themselves into the dangers of adulthood. In short, they make for compelling characters.