Night Kites | Literary Qualities
Kerr is a very popular writer among young adults because she writes about themes that are current, that address the complexity of life, and that do not offer easy solutions or answers to teenage problems. Gwen Spring tells Suzy in Love Is a Missing Person that "Life isn't answers. It's questions." Kerr's characters ask questions. Mary Kingsbury in an article on Kerr says that she "offers her readers a choice. One takes from these books a genuine sense of the ambiguity of life and the difficulty, if not the impossibility, of pinning down definite answers." There are often familiar...
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