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Lois Metzger

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Lois Metzger was born in Queens, New York City. Three of her five young-adult novels take place in Belle Heights, an invented Queens neighborhood that is boring on purpose to stand in stark contrast to the dramatic life of her characters. She has also written two nonfiction books about the Holocaust, and has edited five anthologies of original short stories. She lives near Washington Square Park in New York with her husband, son, and a tuxedo cat. Someone once told her that black-and-white cats were the best, which she thought made no sense. Now she's a believer.

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I just finished reading A Trick of the Light. It was amazing and truly touching. You don't really hear much about boys/men being anorexic, but your book really showed that it can happen to anyone. It felt extremely real once I figured out who/what was telling the story, and I have a question. Why did you write it so that it was his anorexia telling the story? What made you think of doing that?

Lois Metzger Grace, thank you so much for writing and I'm so glad you liked the book! A Trick of the Light went through many, many drafts. Originally Mike told his…moreGrace, thank you so much for writing and I'm so glad you liked the book! A Trick of the Light went through many, many drafts. Originally Mike told his own story. Then Amber told her side of things. Then his mom. The "voice" was always there--in everything I read about eating disorders, people spoke about a voice in their heads pushing them to more and more destructive behavior. With each draft, no matter the narrator, the voice got stronger and more present. At one point I was struggling with something and the voice told me, "Just let me tell it!" So I did. Thank you, again! (less)

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Lois Metzger This is something I discovered by accident. When I first started out, I wrote the diaries of three characters. Every day, I wrote about what had happe…moreThis is something I discovered by accident. When I first started out, I wrote the diaries of three characters. Every day, I wrote about what had happened to them that day, sometimes telling the same event three different ways. When I was in college, I wanted to enter a short-story contest, so I wrote a story about these three characters. The story felt ready-made because I already knew the characters so well. This is what I would recommend, to write the diaries, or the journals, or the blogs, anything that gets at the inner lives of your characters. In my case, the diary entries came to hundreds of pages, and the story was only 11 pages. I won $50.(less)

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	A Trick of the Light 3.85 avg rating — 1,299 ratings — published 2013 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Change Places with Me 3.13 avg rating — 922 ratings — published 2016 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bites: Scary Stories to Sink Your Teeth Into by Lois Metzger (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kevin Emerson (Goodreads Author), Joshua Gee (Goodreads Author) 3.70 avg rating — 286 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Yours, Anne: The Life of Anne Frank 3.95 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Missing Girls 3.18 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 1999 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bites: Scary Stories to Sink Your Teeth Into / Bones: Terrifying Tales to Haunt Your Dreams by Lois Metzger (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Neal Shusterman (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Terry Black (Contributor) 3.53 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bones: Terrifying Tales to Haunt Your Dreams by Lois Metzger (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Todd Strasser (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), David Levithan (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.13 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Year We Missed My Birthday by Lois Metzger (Goodreads Author) (Editor/Contributor), Sharon Robinson, Rita Williams-Garcia 3.64 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 2005	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Be Careful What You Wish For: Ten Stories About Wishes by Lois Metzger (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Louise Hawes (Goodreads Author), A. LaFaye (Goodreads Author) 3.63 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2007	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Can You Keep a Secret?: Ten Stories About Secrets really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“That is a problem with memory: Sometimes you forget what you wish you hadn’t; other times you can’t forget something you’d prefer to be rid of.”
― Lois Metzger, A Trick of the Light

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“That is a problem with memory: sometimes you forget what you wish you hadn’t; other times you can’t forget something you’d prefer to be rid of. Stop-motion”
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