The Great Greene Heist by Varian Johnson6/11/2023 Johnson: When I first started the novel, the heist was geared around a homecoming election. Can you talk about why those issues are critical–and especially critical now, in 2014–and how they seemed like organic ones to explore within this particular story? I noticed several compelling themes that run lightly throughout The Great Greene Heist–themes of honesty, electioneering, political corruption, not to mention corruption of authority figures, and also the corruption influence of money. Varian’s new middle-grade novel, The Great Greene Heist, is a humorous look at political corruption, elections, and the problems of middle school. But all of them consider the layers and complexities of being human. They may come to use via genres like romance or mystery or thriller or sci fi. These books may be humorous, psychological, serious, realistic or fantasy. One of the misconceptions that people have about The Pirate Tree is that we write reviews of “issue” books but, in fact, we like to write reviews of books that deal in various ways with the human condition. It was my pleasure to interview The Pirate Tree reviewer Varian Johnson about his new book The Great Green Heist.
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