"Werlin reinforces her reputation as a master of the YA thriller." School Library Journal (starred review, 9/2006) "Werlin tackles the topic of child abuse with grace and insight.” The outcome made knots in my chest come undone." It might be a sister or brother who terrorizes the family. Sometimes, it is a boyfriend, a husband, or a wife. Many readers have written to tell me that they grew up in circumstances like those in the book. There are children and indeed, adults, who are prey to people like Nikki Walsh. If "you," hearing the story, are not only yourself but are also a five year old girl.a child in danger.that does things to your emotions as reader that cannot be done when you are reading as an outside observer. This approach was a deliberate artistic choice to try to involve the reader more intensely into the story. The Rules of Survival is "told" by Matthew to his little sister Emmy. Eventually I realized I had to sit down and go into its dark places and find out. There was a longer story there for me to explore. This novel began its life as a short story that wouldn’t leave me alone. I ended up doing a good deal of thinking about what it might be like for a child to be in the power of someone like that. While I was lucky enough to grow up with loving, responsible parents, as an adult I encountered someone like Matt’s mother, Nikki Walsh. Murdoch, his mother’s ex-boyfriend, who maybe can help him get free of his mother-for good. Then, suddenly, there's a possible ally on the horizon. But secretly, inside, he's growing tired and hopeless. Who is their enemy? It’s their mother, Nikki O’Grady Walsh. Matt has long since put himself in charge of protecting his younger sisters from their enemy.
Published by: Originally published by Dial Books/Penguin Random House, current edition by Nancy Werlin.įinalist for both the National Book Award and the LA Times Book Prize.
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