Once young adult meant 20-somethings ready to get on to life. The contemporary young adult seems someone with the gift of the gab, a sense of humour, the ability to laugh and sneer (at others and himself/herself) and preferably street smart, if also underage.
They are growing in number as authors and finding new customers for publishing. Young adult fiction is fairly new in India with a handful of publishers developing their list and purchasing rights to foreign publications.
Anshuman Mohan of St Xavier’s Collegiate School, 15, has written his much-publicised book about school and life thereafter that goes by the name of Potato CHIPS. Pradipta Sarkar, a 25-year-old editor at Harper Collins which published Potato CHIPS, feels lack of choice spawned the trend: “We thought that after Enid Blyton, Rudyard Kipling, Ruskin Bond, what does the young adult read? He then has to skip straight to adult fiction,” she says.
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