Laurie Halse Anderson on Her New Book, The Impossible Knife of Memory

Laurie Halse Anderson is a familiar name in the world of children’s and young adult literature with a prodigious output ranging from picture books (e.g.The Hair of Zoe Fleefenbacher Goes to School)tohistorical fiction (e.g.Chainsthe first title in herSeeds of America series) and young adult works (e.g.Speak).In her latest, The Impossible Knife of Memory, we meet 17 year-old Hayley Kincaid whose mother died when she was small and who has spent the past five years homeschooling herself while tr...