When our favorite writers are exposed, what do we do?

Making peace with them has more to do with making peace with ourselves

My Hero Exposed

When I was a child, we would spend hours at the public library. I was homeschooled and the library was one of the places we could spread out and exercise independence in public. I would beeline for the back corner, the YA stacks.

My friends were reading Sweet Valley High and The Babysitters Club, slim paperbacks in pastel pinks and baby bl…