As an old adult, I usually think young adult novels are not for me. But I’m beginning to rethink that the position after talking to writer Marisa Reichardt about her debut novel Underwater (hardcover, digital). While she says the novel is YA because it has, “A teenage protagonist facing teenage protagonist issues while embracing the truth of teenage emotion,” she goes on to explain why the operative word in the phrase “young adult” may not be the first one.
