So every single thing they had to do, they had to figure out themselves. And one of the famous stories in this little town where they all lived was that one of the settlers had lived in a big, hollowed-out tree, because it took them a while for them get up their little house. When the Finns came, they were just in the middle of the woods. And what was interesting about hearing about the Finnish immigrants as opposed to the Italian immigrants-my Italian immigrants came over more in the 1910s and settled in New Jersey in a house right where there were cars and everything was normal. It was a pretty small group of immigrants from Finland who came over, and they only settled in a few places. And let me tell you, there were not that many Finns in the United States. They went to a completely strange new world where nobody spoke their language.
They never saw the city that they grew up in again. So they might as well have gone to Mars, because they never saw anybody from their family that they left behind again. They came from Finland to the West Coast, to Washington, in the 1880s I want to say, and they never returned home. His family, like my mom’s family, a lot of immigrants, came over in the 1800s to America. It was actually inspired by the past in the sense that it was inspired by my dad’s family again. I feel like The Lion of Mars is interesting because it’s in the future, but it feels like you write this sort of historical semi-fiction, and this feels like whatever the future version of that would be called. Even your comics, because you grew up with brothers who read comics, and The Fourteenth Goldfish, how your dad did experiments at home.
It seems like all of your books are if not based on then inspired by your family. Marcy Cornell: I only recently read The Lion of Mars and completely devoured it in like one bite. Subscribe and download the episode, wherever you get your podcasts! Holm, Newbery Award-winning author of Our Only May Amelia, Penny from Heaven, and Turtle in Paradise.
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