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My title started as a placeholder and eventually became the actual title. In the book, 16-year-old Hedda has led an isolated, screen-free existence for the past decade. Her mother chose to shield her from the Internet after a disturbing online experience that Hedda can't remember.
"The Glare" is Hedda's childhood word for screens in general—phones, computers, tablets. But the phrase has a second, more specific and dangerous meaning. When Hedda gets a chance to visit her dad, she wastes no time getting online. She finds a dark web address that leads her to a video game surrounded by a sinister urban legend. To find out whether this is the source of her terrors of "the Glare," she plays the game ... and...[read on]
The Page 69 Test: The Killer in Me.
Q&A with Margot Harrison.
--Marshal Zeringue
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