“I’m very lazy about it,” she says with a laugh. “I wanted to set it in a time where there were no worries about cell phones, computers, Google.”
“I was born in 1955, and Pie takes place there,” Weeks says.
There’s a green Chevrolet rolling slowly through town, Alice’s mother insists on baking pies (even though she’s terrible at it), and it turns out Alice’s friend Charlie possesses strong amateur detective skills (which come in very handy).Īlthough Alice’s life gets chaotic after her aunt’s passing, the goings-on are set against a simpler backdrop: a small town in the 1950s. And when Polly dies in 1955, she leaves her Blueberry Award-winning pie crust recipe to her cat, Lardo. This makes her visitors very happy-but leaves Alice’s mother feeling jealous. People come from near and far to bring Polly fresh ingredients that she makes into delicious pies. Polly is the Pie Queen of Ipswitch, Pennsylvania. I have a huge amount to be grateful for.”Īlice, the young heroine of the book, learns gratitude from her beloved Aunt Polly, who shows her by example the joy of doing things for the experience, whether or not it results in plaudits or paydays. But despite the pastry’s prominence in Pie, the author says, “It was not my intention to write a book about pie, but to write about gratitude. Pie has long been part of the author’s life: Growing up, she and her mother baked together, and Weeks bakes for her own family. I got back recipes, stories and lots of pictures of pies.” The first, apple pie, was provided by Weeks for the rest, she “wrote to friends and family and teachers and schools I’d visited. Things start to get strange when Aunt Polly bequeaths her prized pie crust recipe to her cranky cat. When it came to writing Pie, the author says it “was by far the most fun I’ve ever had writing a book.” It’s certainly fun to read: Pie combines stories of family, food and friendship with comical shenanigans and well-crafted characters-including a mysterious pastry thief and a cranky cat named Lardo. I think of myself as being very deeply rooted in sixth grade.” It probably makes me annoying to live with, because I’m basically a kid. To write for kids, Weeks says, “you have to have arrested development on some level. It’s an attitude that has stood her in good stead over the last 20 years, during which she has written picture books and middle-grade novels, including the award-winner So B. “I remember what it feels like to make believe,” Weeks explains during a call to her home in Nyack, New York. As the author of some 50 books for kids, that’s a very good-almost essential-thing. Much of the time, Sarah Weeks feels like she’s still in middle school.
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