A recent New York Times profile on Orphan Black star Tatiana Maslany reflects that her masterful portrayals of Project Leda’s disparate clones represent a range of female TV archetypes, from Desperate Housewives to a European horror story to a police procedural. I’d like to argue that the members of the Clone Club also embody many of the archetypes observed in YA novels: the scrappy fighter, […]
Alywn Hamilton’s debut novel, Rebel of the Sands, combines a hardbitten western setting and hardboiled narrative style with eastern myth and a restrictive, patriarchal social structure. Heroine Amani is an orphan forced to live in her brutal uncle’s home, in a tiny, dusty town without prospects. But she’s also a brilliant sharpshooter who dreams of using her talents […]
