It was such a concentrated period," he added. Then, two months later, my favorite uncle died in a plane crash. "I was 11 years old in New York City when 9/11 happened. "There was a point where my mom was admitted into the hospital 13 times within a single year and that was really frightening, " Silver said. He was close to his mother and the fear of her dying haunted him. He grew up in the South Bronx, a gay Puerto Rican kid, who was in high school when his father walked out. One fled from Arizona to New York to escape his homophobic parents, where he falls in love with a native New Yorker with a serious heart condition.Īdam Silvera's mom suffered from a heart condition. "It allowed me to bring back the main characters who did indeed die at the end," Silvera said. "The First to Die at the End" takes readers back into an earlier version of that world. Because the main characters do not survive, Silvera had to come up with a prequel. The problem with writing a smash hit where both heroes die is how to follow up. HarperCollins Publishers The cover of Adam Silvera's new novel.
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