by Kathryn Holmes
This past Friday, August 7, 2015, Marcy and I posted
our answers to Kathryn’s debut novel The Distance Between Lost and Found.
Today, you get to read Kathryn’s favorites.
Awesome answers, Kathryn! We can’t wait for our
readers to read the novel. And hopefully to give us a few of their favorites,
too.
1) What is your favorite line or paragraph from the
novel as it relates to the main character’s development and/or growth?
Page 190-191:
The rain starts: sharp, hard drops that sting Hallelujah’s
arms. It feels like an attack. Like they let their guard down, and now nature
is back with a vengeance.
But Hallelujah breathes in deep. Limps along. Tries to
think of her skin as armor. She’s not the same person she was two days ago.
That girl ran from rain, fell down mountainsides, scrambled in the mud, blind
and gasping and scared.
This girl, this new Hallelujah, is still scared, but
she watches her footing, and she holds on to Jonah and Rachel instead of
pushing them away. She watches the rocks grow closer. For once, she knows where
she’s going.
2) What is your favorite chapter ending or
cliffhanger?
Hard to do without spoilers! I love this final image
from page 105:
Jonah pokes at the fire with a stick. His shoulders
are hunched. He looks young. He looks vulnerable. He says it again: “I’m
sorry.”
“Me too,” Hallelujah repeats. She hesitates for a
second, then puts her arm around him, just across his back. It feels both
totally wrong and completely right—to be sitting here, now, under an open sky,
raw and injured and exposed, to be comforting Jonah, to be apologized to. She
doesn’t know if it feels wrong or right to him, because they don’t talk after
that. Jonah adds a few more branches to the fire. After a while they lie down,
closer this time, careful not to disturb Rachel, whose sleep exhales puff white
and frosty in the mountain air.
3) Who is your favorite secondary character and why?
Since DISTANCE spends so much time with only three
characters, it’s hard to choose between Jonah and Rachel! Jonah has my heart.
He means well—but he screwed up, big time, and he’s trying desperately to make
up for what he did. Rachel makes me laugh. She knows just what to say to
lighten the mood. She’s a caring friend. Hallie needs them both on her journey,
and as their author, I love them equally.
4) What is your favorite line or paragraph of
description?
Here’s one of my favorite descriptive passages, from
Page 89:
The view is incredible. A 360 panorama. If this were a
movie, the camera would sweep around and around, taking in their wide eyes
along with the mountains rolling into the distance. There would be a swell of
strings, a breathless final swoop before the dialogue, soft and awestruck.
It’s not the tallest peak. Not by a long shot. They’re
at the top of what can’t even really be called a mountain, not with everything
else around. There are mountains visible behind other mountains, rising up
behind valleys, peeking out, hills upon hills upon hills. The green mounds look
so much softer and gentler from a distance. Almost like a blanket that someone
left rumpled. Or that someone’s still sleeping under.
And there are so many trees. So many shades of green.
Sunlit green and shadowed green. Grass green and moss green and pine green and
the greens of every variety of leaf.
5) What is your favorite line of dialogue?
I’ll pick a lighter moment, from Page 118:
“We have to maintain order, so we don’t go all Lord of
the Flies.”
Congratulations to Kathryn on her debut novel, The
Distance Between Lost and Found!
MY BIO:
Kathryn Holmes grew up in Maryville, Tennessee, where
she was an avid reader and an aspiring writer from an early age. She now lives
in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and piles upon piles of books. A
graduate of The New School’s MFA in Creative Writing program, Kathryn works as
a freelance dance journalist, among other writing gigs. The Distance Between
Lost and Found is her debut novel.
LINKS:
Website: http://www.kathrynholmes.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/kathryn_holmes
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