Readers learn that Sagan is American, but his Syrian father moved the family to Syria when he was a child. "I like seeing things from every perspective and I always try to incorporate that theme into my novels somehow," she says. Hoover says that she really wanted to drive home the point that family members need to see matters from multiple perspectives in order to fully understand each other. "I believe this drawing encompasses what her character feels throughout the book and think it’s the perfect representation of the book as a whole."
I think my favorite drawing is the one of Merit at the bottom of a pool with a floating brick tied around her," Hoover says.
"I was writing the book as the artist was creating the drawings, so I would explain a scene to him and we would discuss what the drawing should be. "I do think a lot of what I write is influenced by my experiences as a social worker, although I never intend for it to be. "I wasn't sure where Merit's character was going to take me when I started the journey," Colleen Hoover tells Bustle. All the trauma inflicted by her family has begun to fester in Merit, and she spirals into a depression she refuses to acknowledge out of fear that her family will distance themselves even further from her. Her father Barnaby left their family to marry his pregnant mistress, and her mother, who suffers from social anxiety, spends her days in the basement of their home.
Merit's twin sister Honor and older brother Utah barely speak to her. Much like the cover, the story is more than meets the eye: it's an new adult (NA) romance, yes, but also a searing portrayal of dysfunctional family dynamics and a teenager coping with mental illness.Ī pioneer of NA novels, the New York Times bestselling author's new book centers on 17-year-old Merit Voss, whose family is hanging together by a thread. The cover of Colleen Hoover's new book Without Merit is not actually held together by pins and thread, though it appears that way when you pick up a hard copy.
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