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“I wanted to write something which takes a stammer seriously,” the author says of ‘When the Stammer Came to Stay,’ out Dec. 10 from Walker Books US Comments Maggie O’ Farrell and the cover of ‘When the Stammer Came to Stay’. Photo: Murdo Macleod 2017; Walker Books US Author Maggie O’Farrell is fascinated by the stories often pushed to the sidelines. It’s what led to the plots of many of her acclaimed novels, including Hamnet , which centers William Shakespeare’s son, and The Marriage Portrait , about Lucrezia de’Medici, the third daughter of the last Duke of Florence. “It’s not always necessarily the famous people that I’m interested in,” the author tells PEOPLE. “It’s more the people who are in the shadows that there isn’t much written about; people whose histories are written in water.” O’Farrell’s latest book also highlights an overlooked topic, and one often portrayed in a negative light. When the Stammer Came to Stay , out Dec. 10, follows Min, a young girl who wakes up one morning to see that she can’t push certain words out. With the help of her sister, Bea, she learns to navigate her newfound stammer and realizes the importance of self-acceptance. ‘When the Stammer Came to Stay’ by Maggie O’Farrell, illustrated by Daniela Jaglenka Terrazzini O’Farrell originally set out to write a children’s book about two sisters who learn to accept their differences, but Min’s speech impediment soon took over the story. “It’s very rare in fiction, any kind of fiction, to meet a character with a stammer who’s taken seriously,” says O’Farrell, who has a stammer herself. “Often, it’s played for laughs. We’re invited as audiences or readers to laugh at this person who has a kind of verbal disfluency, or we’re invited to think of them as weird or weak or nervous or anxious.” “But actually, stammerers necessarily aren’t those things,” she says. “I wanted to write something which takes a stammer seriously and talks about what exactly it’s like and the bad things about it, but also the things that it can possibly give you.” Kenya Moore […]
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Julie Gilbert Today, we delve into the enduring relevance of the themes explored by Pulitzer Prize -winning author Edna Ferber
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