Stopping by the blog today is the wonderful NA author of the Anatomy of a Boyfriend duology, Daria Snadowsky for an interview about her two novels, Anatomy of a Boyfriend and Anatomy of a Single Girl.
What inspired you to write the Anatomy of a Boyfriend duology?
All young couples in school face a serious dilemma: Either they can try to stay together and see what happens, or else they can break up and get on with their lives with the faith that they’ll get back together when they’re older if they’re really right for each other. Of course the latter option makes a lot more sense… but if you have good chemistry with someone, it’s difficult to imagine breaking up “proactively” even if the timing is bad. And if couples do choose to break up proactively, they face another decision…do they break up right away, or do they stay together and “have fun” until graduation or summer ends or some other major life event separates them? And will staying together make breaking up even harder? Etc. So I wanted to portray this kind of crossroads in YA novels.
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What inspired you to write the Anatomy of a Boyfriend duology?All young couples in school face a serious dilemma: Either they can try to stay together and see what happens, or else they can break up and get on with their lives with the faith that they’ll get back together when they’re older if they’re really right for each other. Of course the latter option makes a lot more sense… but if you have good chemistry with someone, it’s difficult to imagine breaking up “proactively” even if the timing is bad. And if couples do choose to break up proactively, they face another decision…do they break up right away, or do they stay together and “have fun” until graduation or summer ends or some other major life event separates them? And will staying together make breaking up even harder? Etc. So I wanted to portray this kind of crossroads in YA novels.
Anatomy of a Single Girl by Daria Snadowsky (review copy) - "A new boyfriend is the quickest way to recover from losing your old one."
Anatomy of a Boyfriend by Daria Snadowsky - Before this all happened, the closest I'd ever come to getting physical with a guy was playing the board game Operation. Okay, so maybe that sounds pathetic, but it's not like there were any guys at my high school who I cared to share more than three words with, let alone my body.
