Caitlin Flanagan — American Writer born on December 30, 1961,

Caitlin Flanagan is an American writer and social critic. A former staff writer at The New Yorker, she is a contributor to The Atlantic. Her book To Hell with All That: Loving and Loathing Our Inner Housewife was published by Little, Brown in 2006... (wikipedia)

Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.
Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence.
Girls are the best readers in the world. Reading is really a way of kind of escaping so deeply into yourself and pursuing your own thoughts within the construct of a story.
I used to teach at a private school, and the parents thought I loved their children. I did not love their children! I liked them well enough, but I was always delighted to see them go off for summer vacation.
My mother was very involved with Cesar Chavez's work on behalf of the migrant farm workers in California.