PW Talks with Virginia Euwer Wolff.(Brief Article)(Interview)

PW: In 1993, your novel Make Lemonade was published to great acclaim. What prompted you to return to the heroine, LaVaughn, after an eight-year-hiatus?

VEW: Young readers, in letters, kept telling me that the ending [of Make Lemonade] was up in the air. It took me eight months to find a name for LaVaughn. Originally, in Make Lemonade, the narrator was nameless and faceless. She was an instrument to help Jolly. [My editor] Brenda Bowen forced me to make her much more than a messenger. Having found LaVaughn by my fingernails going up a cliff, I felt I knew her well. She felt like a person I wanted to revisit. I felt that LaVaughn was a friend, that she wouldn't assault …