Jean Craighead George’s Children Collaborate On Their Mother’s Last Book
“In their acknowledgments at the end of the novel, Craig and Twig thank their mother ‘for leaving us with this ‘homework assignment,’ which pulled us together after she died.’ What would have been Jean’s reaction to the completed assignment, we asked? ‘I think she would have been really touched that we were able to understand what she wanted to do in the novel, and that we worked together to honor her voice as well as used our skills to make this the best book we could,’ Twig said. ‘Someday it will sink in what an extraordinary opportunity it was for us to finish this novel.'”
