Sandwriter | Literary Qualities

Hughes has a natural writing style, which is sustained throughout all of her novels. Descriptions of settings do not delay the action of Sandwriter, but inform the reader where the characters are. Setting is always important in a novel by Hughes, and nowhere more important than in Sandwriter. People think and often behave differently in a desert or in a simple house than they do in a market or a luxurious palace.

When writing her book The Tomorrow City, Hughes developed an awareness of two halves of her mind: the right brain (imaginative, holistic, in touch with...

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