A number of reviewers and friends have noted that my novel Birth Offering qualifies as a YA novel. Granted the main character is a teen, but I would not have considered the book to be YA. I always thought that young adult fiction had certain distinct qualities, the most obvious having a youth or youths as the main character(s). In addition, though, I often thought that the narrative was written in the first person – and entirely from the adolescent’s perspective. I’m not sure where I got that idea from, but there it is.
Birth Offering has multiple limited third person perspective, with 14-year old Ryan the most central character. But the point of view shifts to a special agent and the boy’s mother. So, just because the main character is an adolescent (and probably 50% of the story is told from his limited, third person point of view) could this novel “qualify” as YA (or a crossover, if that is such a term)? Maybe I am missing an audience…
Birth Offering has multiple limited third person perspective, with 14-year old Ryan the most central character. But the point of view shifts to a special agent and the boy’s mother. So, just because the main character is an adolescent (and probably 50% of the story is told from his limited, third person point of view) could this novel “qualify” as YA (or a crossover, if that is such a term)? Maybe I am missing an audience…
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