![]() “When I think about where the idea for this novel came from, I have to trace it all back to my husband,” she says. With Matched, Condie took her writing in a very different direction. I started writing, and after starting some stories I never finished, I decided to see if I could write a complete novel, start to finish.” “I realized I wanted something to do-and I didn’t want it to be dishes. “I really missed being in the classroom, though of course I was happy to be at home with my son,” she says. The author began dabbling in writing in the early part of the decade, after she quit her job teaching high school English to stay home with her newborn son. And booksellers and readers are clearly responding to the significant buzz surrounding the book’s launch: Matched debuted this week in the #2 children’s slot on the ABA’s Indie Bestseller List.Ĭondie, who lives outside of Salt Lake City, began writing Matched in fall 2008, but it wasn’t her first foray into fiction. ![]() Foreign rights to the novel, released by Dutton on November 30 with a 250,000-copy first printing, have been sold in 30 countries and film rights have been optioned to Disney. ![]() In the novel, a teenage girl who lives in a world where The Society selects everyone’s ideal mate falls in love with someone other than her chosen one. ![]() Matched, the first book in a dystopian trilogy by Ally Condie, is off to a soaring start. ![]()
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