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When We Wake Blog Tour: A Character Interview and Giveaway!

3/8/2013

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We are happy to be be part of the blog tour this week in celebration of Karen Healey's newly released YA sci fi novel, When We Wake. (Little, Brown BFYR, released 3/5/13) As part of the tour, we conducted an interview with one of the characters in the book, Joph, about environmental issues. You see, in When We Wake, Tegan goes to a protest rally with her friends and then the next thing she remembers is waking up...one hundred years later. So many aspects of the world are different for her and Karen Healey has created a version of Earth's future that rings eerily possible.  Joph is one of Tegan's new friends from after she wakes up in the future and we're excited to see what she'll have to say. Welcome, Joph!
Through your actions in the book, it is clear that you care a lot about people in need. Other than protesting, how can young people make a difference? Do you believe that one person can have an impact?

Yes. At the very least, they can make an impact on themselves, and in choosing to live with care for others, they make an impact on them. Groups of people dedicated to change don’t just come about – they originate with individuals who want to make an impact.

And youth makes little difference – young people have less power, but we have more energy, and often more passion. Young people can speak, they can listen, they can give what time or money or goods they have spare. We can be forces of change for the better.

In your current world, there are many commonplace practices in place to adapt to the environmental conditions—humanure composting, roof gardens, timed showers, water rations, fossil fuel taxes, underwater buildings, and gray water systems, for example. While some of these things are around now (2013), none of them are widely used. (save perhaps fuel taxes) What kinds of environmentally savvy inventions or processes do you think will be the first to garner widespread use?

Roof gardens, I’d hope. I like gardens. They’re pretty, and they give you shade, and they feed you, and they soak up carbon dioxide and release oxygen back into the atmosphere. I mean, we can only have roof gardens because we use humanure for fertilizer and water rationing to make sure there’s water for them. It’s all connected. That’s how everything works.

The people in Australia in your time are very pro-vegetarian and put off by those who eat meat. Do you think we have a moral or ethical obligation to alter the way we eat to preserve some aspect/s of the environment?

Oh, the meat thing. Well, I don’t know, does it taste nice? I don’t really miss something I’ve never had. And a vegetarian life is much better for the environment – raising food animals takes a lot of water and energy in comparison. I think it’s wrong to say how other people should eat, though. Maybe you should think about it? And decide what’s best for you?

Tegan is in a particularly interesting position, having experienced the world in two different centuries, but I’m sure you’ve learned a lot about Earth’s history in school. (plus, your being a genius helps!) What surprises you most about our past environmental choices? Are there any historical environmental disasters or events that you find particularly appalling or interesting?

Bethi’s much more your history girl, but let’s see, what can I remember? Oh, flying. We did this project on commercial flight, and how much fuel it took, and how much carbon it emitted. The numbers were shocking, and Bethi was really angry. She walked around for a week saying, “Couldn’t they sail? They had electricity! Why didn’t more people use electric cars and just drive to where they wanted to go?”

I didn’t want to tell her that lots of the electricity came from burning coal anyway, because she was already so upset. So I pretended that I’d taken some color and forgotten to do that part of the project and instead she got angry because she thought I was getting high too often.

It’s sometimes hard to do the right thing by Bethi, but she makes life interesting.

The Iroquois Native Americans originated the “seventh generation sustainability concept,” which basically means that when making important decisions we should analyze the impact that decision will have seven generations, or 140 years, from now. Yet it is very hard to get people to care about issues that are more abstract. What do you believe about the way we should handle our inherited Earth? Are you optimistic about our current trajectory?

The Iroquois are some smart people. Looking seven generations ahead would have done us a lot of good – seven generations ago. Now, no, I’m not optimistic.

I try to be. I hope there will be a solution. I work to help.

But I’m not sure if our species has seven generations left.


Thanks for answering our questions, Joph!

Here's the official blurb for the book:

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[ Goodreads | Amazon ]
My name is Tegan Oglietti, and on the last day of my first lifetime, I was so, so happy.

Sixteen-year-old Tegan is just like every other girl living in 2027--she's happiest when playing the guitar, she's falling in love for the first time, and she's joining her friends to protest the wrongs of the world: environmental collapse, social discrimination, and political injustice.

But on what should have been the best day of Tegan's life, she dies--and wakes up a hundred years in the future, locked in a government facility with no idea what happened.

Tegan is the first government guinea pig to be cryonically frozen and successfully revived, which makes her an instant celebrity--even though all she wants to do is try to rebuild some semblance of a normal life. But the future isn't all she hoped it would be, and when appalling secrets come to light, Tegan must make a choice: Does she keep her head down and survive, or fight for a better future?


And the trailer:

Pretty well done, eh? Healey will also be chatting with fellow writer Malinda Lo about the book on the  Live at the Lounge author video chat on March 23rd. It's going to be a great sci-fi/YA fest! As part of the Wake Up blog tour, the publisher has provided a copy of the book for one random reader at each stop. The giveaway is US ONLY and will run until 3/17.  Be sure to visit all the other stops on Karen's blog tour to hear from more characters and increase your chances of winning a copy!

3/4 - Novel Novice interviews Bethari about media/communications
3/5 - The Book Smugglers interviews Abdi about immigration
3/6 - 365 Days of Reading interviews Dr. Marie about scientific/medical research
3/7 - Forever Young Adult interviews Tegan about music
3/8 - The Readventurer (you're already here!), interviews Joph about the environment
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Stay tuned this week for our (well, my (Flann)) 4-star review of When We Wake. In the meantime, check out these reviews from some of our blogging buddies:

A Reader of Fictions
Alluring Reads
Vegan YA Nerds
Book Smugglers

Have a wonderful weekend, everyone! Since probably no one is reading this paragraph, I will take this time to say that I was just perusing Karen Healey's FAQs on her site and this former child chess champion was giddy to find out that her favorite musical is Chess. I'm going to kick my Friday off right by prancing around the house singing Nobody's Side.
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17 Comments
Maggie, Young Adult Anonymous link
3/7/2013 06:02:22 pm

This is the first time I've ever said this -- you had me at humanure.

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Flannery (The Readventurer) link
3/7/2013 06:55:58 pm

It won't be the last.

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Noelle (Young Adult Anonymous) link
3/7/2013 10:04:31 pm

I had a comment all ready to go and then read "humanure" and NOTHING. But as someone who experienced a 90º January, I hope I shuffle off this mortal coil before we get to the save your own crap to survive portion of Earth's history. (This wasn't the direction you hoped the comment thread would go in was it?)

I'll definitely be reading this one!!

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Suz Reads
3/7/2013 10:10:24 pm

I would miss my friends, family and cat! Thanks for this amazing giveaway! This book sounds great and I would love to win it!

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Danielle Nguyen
3/8/2013 12:20:09 am

I'm guessing Twitter and Tumblr won't be a thing in 100 years. I would miss them dearly. My internet addiction is a scary thing.

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Carl
3/8/2013 01:30:34 am

I'd miss my wife and my dog, a lot.

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Tricia C.
3/8/2013 03:50:32 am

I would miss my family, of course, but I don't think I'd miss our arrogance about the resources of our planet. Our 7th graders are studying land issues all year; this novel sounds like it might fit right in.

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Leanne Goon
3/8/2013 03:59:10 am

Family and friends for sure! And Starbucks if no longer around! :)

Thanks,
Leanne

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Kaethe Douglas
3/8/2013 04:22:15 am

My family, no question.

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Keertana @ Ivy Book Bindings link
3/8/2013 05:11:44 am

I've heard nothing but amazing things about this one, but this interview has me scrambling to add it to my shelves at once - since I apparently didn't before! Plus, if you three are participating in a blog tour, the book has got to be pretty darn good! :) Thanks for sharing, dears!

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Tiffany link
3/8/2013 05:52:24 am

I would miss my kids! Oh, that'd be terrible. :( But beyond the obvious, I'd miss Cadbury eggs, if they weren't around anymore!

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Heidi link
3/8/2013 06:07:02 am

*sigh* I really do need to read this one, don't I? I really can't resist. I think it would be horrible to wake up and realize everyone you know and love is dead--I'd miss having any sort of balance/support.

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Kara link
3/10/2013 07:29:42 pm

My family, definitely. But I would also miss the animal species that unfortunately are probably going to go extinct by then.

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Tamara
3/13/2013 01:25:46 pm

I would miss my family.

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Jaime Lester
3/16/2013 01:31:21 pm

My family, without a doubt. Life just wouldn't be the same at all without them.

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