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Fiction and Poetry Award Winner
2006
Overview
In a speech as the recipient of Boston Globe-Horne Book Fiction Award for \"The Schwa Was Here,\" Neal Shusterman relates that the idea of writing the book suddenly came into his mind right in the middle of his presentation upon seeing a kid who was a human schwa--so unnoticeable that his teachers mark him absent in class, and so unnoticeable that he's functionally invisible. He laments that it seems in so many of his books he's grappling with the elusive nature of truth, which is like the moon--even when it's full, one's really only seeing one side.
