John Green
The YA author, 40, just published his first novel since the release of his 2012 phenomenon The Fault in Our Stars. The new book, Turtles All the Way Down, is about 16-year-old Aza Holmes’ struggle with a form of mental illness that Green has grappled with in his own life.
Where did the idea for a story about a teenage girl struggling with mental illness come from? There are so many detective stories about obsessive people who are brilliant detectives because of their obsessiveness, and my experience with obsessiveness has been more or less the complete opposite. I wanted to write a detective story where the plot keeps getting interrupted by
