All that matters out here is what gets you through the winter. Things that do you at least two licks of good.īecause this is the prairie, and the prairie is no place for daydreaming. Things you can touch and feel and see with your own two eyes. This is Kansas, and we Kansans don't put much truck in anything as foolish as irony.Ĭrop yields and healthy livestock and mild winters. When I consider everything that's happened! A certain sort of person might say that it's ironic. So every time I see that little pillow on Aunt Em's good sofa, with its pretty pink piping around the edges and colorful bouquets of daisies and wildflowers stitched alongside those cheerful words (but are they even cheerful, I sometimes wonder?), I'm halfway tempted to laugh. Oh, it wasn't quite so simple, of course, but look at me now: I'm still here, same as before, and it's just as if I was never gone in the first place. Lickety-split, knock your heels together, and there you are. I'm proof alone that it's not true.īecause, you see, I left home. Well, even if they put it on a pillow, whoever said it was wrong.
I know it because my aunt Em has it embroidered on a throw pillow in the sitting room. I'm not entirely sure who said that, but it's something they say. Read an exclusive excerpt from No Place Like Oz: It's very different and stark, as if maybe someone's sucking the magic out of Oz. I wanted it to be not your mother's Oz or my Oz - it's a new Oz. When I actually started thinking about it, the first thing that popped into my head was a goth Munchkin standing on a crumbling brick road. When Amy gets to Oz, is it going to be a dystopia of sorts under Dorothy's reign?Ī. She also has read the books and seen the movie, and the idea of killing a beloved character is crazy to her. She's trying to figure out what wicked is and what good is. The idea of killing someone is going to be huge, and she's going to have to go through the paces and figure out if this is something she can do. She's kind of a misfit - she sticks out at school because of her clothes and because she doesn't necessarily fit in, but she has a very strong moral compass, which is going to be very different from our new Dorothy. She's one of those girls who doesn't always say the right thing.
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