ELISE BROACH
Missing on Superstition Mountain
What made
you choose the three Barker brothers for your heroes?
I liked the idea of writing about three brothers.
I grew up in a family with three children, and I have three children of
my own, and I have always liked the complexity of three siblings... the
shifting alliances and feuds, and all the different possible combinations, the
way siblings who are close to each other can become a kind of team, balancing
out each other's weaknesses.
Which
brother do you have the most in common?
Henry, of course! I'm a middle child, the
bookish one in the family. I always loved to read and make up stories, loved
using big words inappropriately when I was that age. I think I also have
a fair amount in common with Delilah, though.
When you
were a kid, who was your favorite mystery detective?
Oh, good question! I read a TON of Nancy Drew
mysteries as a kid, and even though I'm not sure there's much to admire in the
writing or the way the stories are structured - they're pretty formulaic - I
really did admire Nancy herself when I was little. She was so calm and
brave and competent; a really interesting role model for girls my age at that
time, because she was very much a girl - or a young woman, I should say - but
she never seemed vulnerable because of that. She was strategic, coolly
calculating, a good problem-solver, yet also kind and sincere. I still
think about what she represented to me when I raced through all of those books.
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