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IRISH-CANADIAN AUTHOR, playwright, and screenwriter Emma Donoghue wades into new literary territory this March with the release of her first middle-grade novel, The Lotterys Plus One (HarperCollins Canada). The book tells of a blended multicultural family consisting of two same-sex couples (one male, one female) with seven children (some biologically linked to one or more of the parents, others not). The story focuses on nine-year-old Sumac as her family deals with the sudden addition to their brood of a bigoted, hard-to-live-with grandfather.
Where did the idea for The Lotterys come from? During a New Year’s Eve dinner, my hostess asked why she couldn’t find books for middle-grade readers that take kids with same-sex parents for granted rather than presenting these families as a problem to be explained. I asked myself the same question about other “issues” such as ethnicity and disability: could they be handled blithely and wittily rather than earnestly? Over the course of the dinner, with help from the other guests, I planned a series about the family I call the Lotterys.
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