![]() I had to research every aspect of enlistment, tours of duty, procedures after a service member is killed, etc. I have no personal or familial experience with the military or with what it is like to have a loved one serving overseas, and especially not what happens after one of our service members is killed while serving. Research became extremely important for Personal Effects. ![]() How did you approach the research process for your story? What resources did you turn to? What roadblocks did you run into? How did you overcome them? What was your greatest coup, and how did it inform your manuscript? Matt will do whatever it takes to find out the truth about his brother’s past. Now, even if it means pushing his dad over the edge…Įven if it means getting expelled from school… He wasn’t expecting T.J.’s personal effects to raise even more questions about his life. Matt can’t shake the feeling that if only he could get his hands on T.J.’s stuff from Iraq, he’d be able to make sense of his death. ![]() ![]() T.J.’s gone, and the worst part is, there’s nothing left of him to hold on to. From the promotional copy:įive days to find his brother’s past and his own future.Įver since his brother, T.J., was killed in Iraq, seventeen-year-old Matt Foster feels like he’s been sleepwalking through life - failing classes, getting into fights, and avoiding his dad’s lectures about following in his brother’s footsteps. Kokie is the first-time author of Personal Effects (Candlewick, 2012)( excerpt). ![]()
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