This book was featured in an interview with Lucy on NPR's Fresh Air. This book explores the flip side to being a young adult family, responsibility and aging. The follow-up, Displacement, follows Lucy on a elderly tour aboard a cruise ship with her aging grandparents. A travelogue, the book explores the excitement and freedom that comes from being young and unattached. The book focuses on her childhood growing up with a chef for a mother, and the world of food and cooking that surrounded her youth. Her next book, An Age of License, is a story of one of those touring trips.
It has been translated into six languages. Her second book, Relish, was widely acclaimed, and featured as a New York Times best-seller, Goodreads top book of the year, and an American Library Association award winner in the YA category. New York Times bestselling author Lucy Knisley brings to life a story inspired from her own childhood in an amazing journey of unlikely friends, sisters, and home.She published her first book, French Milk (Touchstone/Simon & Schuster) in 2008. Besides cleaning the chicken coop, trying to keep up with the customers at the local farmers' market, and missing her old life, Jen has to deal with her own insecurities about this new family. As if learning new chores on Peapod Farm wasn't hard enough, having to deal with perfect-at-everything Andy might be the last straw for Jen. Most of all, Jen did not want to get new "sisters," Andy and Reese. She did not want to leave her friends and her dad. She did not want to move to a farm with her mom and her mom's new boyfriend, Walter. This contemporary middle-grade graphic novel about family and belonging from New York Times bestselling author Lucy Knisley is a perfect read for fans of Awkward and Be Prepared. So suddenly moving the country and getting new stepsisters shouldn't be too much of a surprise. Jen is used to not getting what she wants.
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