"When I was growing up, I never read a book about somebody with a sibling who had Down syndrome and it's something that would've been really interesting to me because that definitely was a part of my life," said Lyon, who won the 2009 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize for her bestselling debut novel, The Golden Mean....Lyon said she hopes the Merry storyline will "speak with other kids who maybe had someone like that in the family and felt all those conflicting emotions and didn't know entirely how to deal with them."
To read Victoria Ahearn's full interview for the Canadian Press, please click here.
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