Alexandra Bracken
Alexandra Bracken (born February 27, 1987) is a New York Times bestselling American author. Her debut novel, Brightly Woven, was published by EgmontUSA in 2010.
Early life
Alexandra Bracken was raised in Scottsdale, Arizona and currently lives in New York City, New York, where she works in the publishing industry. She graduated from Chaparral High School in 2005 and attended The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, graduating magna cum laude with a degree in History and English in May 2009.
Career
Bracken wrote her first unpublished novel over her freshman year of college, and began Brightly Woven as a birthday present for her friend during her sophomore year, when she was nineteen years old. In their review of the book, Publishers Weekly dubbed Bracken "a debut author to watch." Her debut placed third in the 2010 GoodReads Choice Awards for Best Debut Author.
In 2012, Disney Hyperion published the near-future, Young Adult thriller The Darkest Minds, the first book in the series of the same name. The series focuses on Ruby, a 16-year-old girl with special abilities that she has only just begun to understand. She breaks out of a "rehabilitation camp" in which she has been imprisoned and teams up with a rag-tag group of fellow camp escapees to find the Slip Kid, a leader who offers shelter to young people in danger and who possesses the secret to controlling one’s powers. The title of the first novel and the series was changed from Black is the Color to The Darkest Minds in November 2011.
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Well sometimes, I get tired of waking up on my own
And sometimes, I feel like I want to go home
But the cars they keep on driving
Down a road that doesn't seem to end
So we're following owls in the flight of the crow,
Living where its green,
But what good is it though
Life getting narrower the further you go,
Sunset's before they rise
It's there in the shadows where nobody goes,
It's there in the dark but what good is it though,
It's a vanishing point on a shimmering road
And there when I close my eyes
Well sometimes,
Yeah, it's hard to know the way to go
When the waters rise around you
And the fire rages down below
So we're following owls in the flight of the crow,
Living where its green,
But what good is it though
Life getting narrower the further you go
Sunset's before they rise,
It's there in the shadows where nobody goes,
It's there in the dark,
But what good is it though
It's a vanishing point on a shimmering road
And there when I close my eyes
Oh no oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh
'Cause we're bullets and we fire from shot guns
Flying through birthday's and new years
Yeah, we're rolling stones,
But the moss keeps growning around
Hearts and our eyes and our ears
Yeah, we're bullets and we fire from shot guns
Flying through birthdays and new years
Yeah, we're rolling stones,
But the moss keeps growning around
Our hearts and our eyes and our ears
So we're following owls in the flight of the crow,
Living where its green,
But what good is it though
Life getting narrower the further you go,
Sunset's before they rise
It's there in the shadows where nobody goes,
It's there in the dark,
But what good is it though
It's a vanishing point on a shimmering road
It's there when I close my eyes,
It's there when I close my eyes,