One summer morning, twelve-year-old Edward Adler, his beloved older brother, his parents, and 183 other passengers board a flight in Newark headed for Los Angeles. I needed him to be okay, so I had to write my way into believing that was possible. I had to create a set of circumstances under which a little boy in that situation could believably become a whole person, in spite of-or even because of-what he’d lost. His aunt and uncle did an amazing job of protecting Ruben’s privacy once he was released from the hospital, but that meant I couldn’t know that he became okay. I think I couldn’t let go because I was both deeply worried about Ruben and deeply curious about how he could go on after such a terrible tragedy. In this interview with Library Journal, the author Ann Napolitano explains why the story grabbed her: Dear Edward was inspired by the true story of Ruben Van Assouw, the sole survivor of a plane crash in 2010.
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