intertextuality

When I wrote Wish, I incorporated one of my favorite picture books into the narrative by having Genna read Christopher Myers' Wings to her baby brother.  This time around, I've got Genna searching for signs of magic, which leads her to discover Virginia Hamilton's The People Could Fly.  For half a year after graduating from college, I worked in a black bookstore in Toronto—to this day, certain book covers are fixed in my mind because it was my job to display the books and everything was...