![]() ![]() "In my books," she says, "love is salvation. ![]() Tokuda-Hall turns a critical, yet compassionate eye on the issue of rape culture, patriarchy, and the meaning of consent. ![]() What follows is more than a revenge fantasy and more than a horror story. I don’t feel like a victim, and I wanted to write a story that reflected that as well." Some of the things that I saw or the things that happened to me were kind of traumatizing, but I don’t feel like a traumatized person. Rape culture was really rampant, and I was really mad about it. "When I was it was extremely white." she remembers. ![]() What if, she wondered, there was a squad of teenage girls who turned into werewolves once a month and went after all the really bad boys - the sexually aggressive ones, the ones who don’t think "no" counts if you are at a party and everyone is drinking. Her new book, Squad, comes out of her own experiences in high school, where rape culture was normal, even rampant. Her last novel, The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea was inspired by a nine-year-old girl who used to come into the children’s bookshop where she worked. Maggie Tokuda-Hall finds inspiration for her books all around her and from her own life. ![]()
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