Lizzy Mason asked Lillian Clark:

What was your favorite book as a teenager? What recent book do you wish had been published when you were a teenager?

Lillian Clark This is a tough one! I read a lot as a teen but didn't necessarily have one favorite book. I stalked my local bookseller for years waiting for the third book in Philip Pullman's HIS DARK MATERIALS series to come out, haha, so those were definitely a favorite. I also read ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST in high school for an English class (we got to pick our own book to read off a list) and that was one of the first books I read that proved how consequential fiction could be in real life. After the movie came out for CUCKOO'S there was a really shift in perception about mental hospitals and the treatment of patients therein, and I found that so powerful. I also fell in love with Kurt Vonnegut in high school.

Thank you for the question!

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