A.S. King Wins the 2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the Young-Adult Literature Category
“Ask the Passengers was born out of 25 years of thinking about being a questioning teenager. It also was born of a habit I’ve had since I was a very young girl. I used to lay in my backyard — my yard was in the middle of a cornfield — so I would lie there in the afternoon and watch the airplanes fly overhead.”