Katie Roiphe of the Wall Street Journal has written an interesting article on the darker bent of YA lit. I think she hits the nail on the head with her statement that: “unsettling as it is, there is a certain amount of comfort to be gleaned from the new disaster fiction; it makes its readers feel less alone. … there is in all of this bleakness a wholesome and old-fashioned redemption that involves principles like triumph over adversity and affirmations of integrity.”
What do you think?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203771904574173403357573642.html