I’d never thought about the what-if scenarios of my death. Mia’s a badass kid. She’s resilient. I think she can make it through just about anything.

With highs come the lows, and then a settling. What now?

You start out on journeys to be a writer, hidden in rooms, scribbling in notebooks, hiding them from others. They’re your private thoughts. They’re things you wouldn’t tell a best friend. Then you get published, and it’s the deepest, most confusing exposure.