Anna W.
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Mindy Mejia:
Thank you for attending the book reading at Prairie Lights last weekend in Iowa City! I just finished the book and I had my suspicions about the murderer from the beginning, but thank you for not making it an easy end-arrival. I look forward to more books from you (no pressure), and I hope you'll consider returning to Iowa again, too. :) Do you have anything in the works as of yet?
Mindy Mejia
Hi Anna! Thanks for coming out to the event at Prairie Lights! I am working on my next book. Here's a preview:
There's a place in Minnesota along the northern edge of the state, hundreds of miles of glacial lakes and untouched forests called the Boundary Waters. Ten years ago a man and his son voyaged into this wilderness and never returned. Search teams found their campsite ravaged by what looked like a bear. They were placed on the missing persons list and presumed dead until a decade later, when the son emerged. Discovered while ransacking an outfitter store, he was violent and uncommunicative. Authorities brought him to Mayfair Mental Institution in Duluth, Minnesota, a port town on the western edge of Lake Superior. Maya Stark, the assistant language therapist, is charged with making a connection with this boy who came back from the dead, their celebrity patient who tries to escape and refuses to answer any questions about his father or the last ten years of his life. But Maya, who was abandoned by her own mother, has secrets, too. And as she’s drawn closer to this enigmatic boy, she’ll risk everything to reunite him with his father who's disappeared from the known world.
There's a place in Minnesota along the northern edge of the state, hundreds of miles of glacial lakes and untouched forests called the Boundary Waters. Ten years ago a man and his son voyaged into this wilderness and never returned. Search teams found their campsite ravaged by what looked like a bear. They were placed on the missing persons list and presumed dead until a decade later, when the son emerged. Discovered while ransacking an outfitter store, he was violent and uncommunicative. Authorities brought him to Mayfair Mental Institution in Duluth, Minnesota, a port town on the western edge of Lake Superior. Maya Stark, the assistant language therapist, is charged with making a connection with this boy who came back from the dead, their celebrity patient who tries to escape and refuses to answer any questions about his father or the last ten years of his life. But Maya, who was abandoned by her own mother, has secrets, too. And as she’s drawn closer to this enigmatic boy, she’ll risk everything to reunite him with his father who's disappeared from the known world.
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Andrew Wight
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Mindy Mejia:
Just finished reading EYWMTB. The scene towards the end of the book where Hattie is convincing Peter to go to New York is very powerful. I found it thought-provoking that neither Hattie nor Peter were being judged (by you) about the appropriateness of their relationship. It didn't work in this case, but under different circumstances it may have.? Andrew
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