{"id":12190,"date":"2021-06-03T06:00:49","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T10:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/?p=12190"},"modified":"2021-06-02T13:35:18","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T17:35:18","slug":"blog-tour-a-night-twice-as-long-by-andrew-simonet-interview-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/blog-tour-a-night-twice-as-long-by-andrew-simonet-interview-giveaway\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Tour: A Night Twice as Long by Andrew Simonet (Interview + Giveaway!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ubb-blog-tour-banner\"><a href=\"http:\/\/xpressobooktours.com\/2021\/03\/23\/tour-sign-up-a-night-twice-as-long-by-andrew-simonet\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/ANightTwiceAsLongTourBanner.png\" alt=\"Blog Tour: A Night Twice as Long by Andrew Simonet (Interview + Giveaway!)\"><\/a><\/p><p>Happy Thursday and welcome to my stop on the blog tour for A NIGHT TWICE AS LONG! I&#8217;m so excited because today I have an interview with Andrew Simonet to share with you! This book is truly amazing and I&#8217;m so so excited to for you to find out more about it, PLUS enter for a chance to win a print copy!!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Summer-2021-divider.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"850\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Summer-2021-divider.png 850w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Summer-2021-divider-300x18.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Summer-2021-divider-768x45.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/a-night-twice-as-long-cover.png\" alt=\"Blog Tour: A Night Twice as Long by Andrew Simonet (Interview + Giveaway!)\" title=\"Blog Tour: A Night Twice as Long by Andrew Simonet (Interview + Giveaway!)\" class=\"ubb-cover-image alignleft\"><strong>A Night Twice as Long<\/strong> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/authors\/andrew-simonet\/\">Andrew Simonet<\/a> <br><strong>Published on<\/strong>  June 1, 2021 by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/publishers\/farrar\/\">Farrar<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/publishers\/straus-and-giroux-byr\/\">Straus and Giroux (Byr)<\/a> <br><strong>Genres:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/genres\/contemporary\/\">Contemporary<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/genres\/neurodivergent\/\">Neurodivergent<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/genres\/ya\/\">YA<\/a> <br><strong>Pages:<\/strong> 320 <br><strong>Add to <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/54017929-a-night-twice-as-long\" target=\"_blank\">Goodreads<\/a> <br><strong>Author Links:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.andrewsimonet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Website<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/andrewsimonet\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/8334582.Andrew_Simonet\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Goodreads<\/a> <br><blockquote class=\"ubb-synopsis\"><p><b>What do you call the difference between what you should feel and what you do feel? Life?<\/b><br \/>\nThe blackout has been going on for three weeks. But Alex feels like she's been living in the dark for a year, ever since her brother, who has autism, was removed from the house, something Alex blames herself for. So when her best friend, Anthony, asks her to trek to another town to figure out the truth about the blackout, Alex says yes.<br \/>\nOn a journey that ultimately takes all day and night, Alex's relationships with Anthony, her brother, and herself will transform in ways that change them all forever.<br \/>\nIn this honest and gripping young adult novel, Andrew Simonet spins a propulsive tale about what it means to turn on the lights and look at what's real.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\t\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">\n{\n\t\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\n\t\"@type\":\"Review\",\n\t\"datePublished\": \"2021-06-03T10:00:49+00:00\",\n\t\"description\": \"Happy Thursday and welcome to my stop on the blog tour for A NIGHT TWICE AS LONG! 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Where would you go to eat, hang out, relax, etc.?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We would sit down on the ground right where we met and talk for hours. No food, no plans, no destination. Whenever I meet someone who has a cognitively different sibling, there is much <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oh-my-god-yes<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. We would trade stories and glories of being cognitively different from our siblings, all the ridiculous moments, the quietly beautiful moments, the devastating moments.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>If Alex were to hang out with characters from other books, who would they be and why?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I think Alex would love to hang out with some non-binary folks. Her gender identity begins to move in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Night Twice as Long<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. I think she is emerging to herself, and her not-quite-linear relationship to gender identity is part of that. She\u2019d love hanging out with Kerewin Holmes from The Bone People and with (real-life characters in their own writing) Maggie Nelson and Harry Dodge.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Would you rather be a superhero or a supervillain? What would your powers and name be and why?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Honestly, I\u2019d rather not be a superhero or supervillain. Both seem dangerously invested in the good\/bad binary. I\u2019m too interested in mess and nuance. People who (believe they) are <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">fighting evil <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">bore me until they frighten me. I would love to be able to breathe underwater, though.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>If you buried a time capsule with three items inside, what three items would you choose and why?<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of those five-foot-long CVS receipts. That captures something about being alive today.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An intricately sculpted hunk of wood, unexplained, to give future folks something to speculate about.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As many wild seeds as would fit, all the plants that might die out before the time capsule is opened.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>What was your favorite bit of research you ended up not using?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I wrote\u2014and cut\u2014a long scene in a quarry. Teenagers who have stopped attending school during the blackout organize \u201cNew School.\u201d On this day, they\u2019re doing Opposites: Come as the opposite of who you are. Dress up, change your hair, and interact with everyone as not-yourself. Alex, head newly shaved and chin out, already feels like her opposite, and she gets in some good trouble. She confronts a girl who seems to be imitating Old Alex: long hair, bookish, retreating. Alex is intrigued and provoked, chatting with and eventually yelling at Old Alex. This is a dream of mine, giving my former self a pep talk and scolding. Turns out this girl is not even playing Opposites, just being her actual self. So Alex has to come to terms with her current, aggressive self as well.<\/span><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is your favorite quote, scene, or moment from <\/b><b><i>A Night Twice as Long<\/i><\/b><b>?<\/b><\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cYou\u2019re not like everybody else. But neither is everybody else.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Summer-2021-divider.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"850\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Summer-2021-divider.png 850w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Summer-2021-divider-300x18.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Summer-2021-divider-768x45.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/xpressobooktours.com\/2021\/03\/23\/tour-sign-up-a-night-twice-as-long-by-andrew-simonet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Follow-the-Tour-Summer-2021.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Summer-2021-divider.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"850\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Summer-2021-divider.png 850w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Summer-2021-divider-300x18.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Summer-2021-divider-768x45.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/About-the-Author-Summer-2021.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ubb-about-author\"><h3>About Andrew Simonet<\/h3><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Andrew.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignleft ubb-about-author-photo\"><p>Andrew Simonet is a choreographer and writer in Philadelphia. His first novel, Wilder, published in 2018. He co-directed Headlong Dance Theater for twenty years and founded Artists U, an incubator for helping artists make sustainable lives. He lives in West Philadelphia with his wife, Elizabeth, and their two sons, Jesse Tiger and Nico Wolf.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ubb-author-links\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.andrewsimonet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Website<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/andrewsimonet\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Twitter<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/8334582.Andrew_Simonet\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Goodreads<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Summer-2021-divider.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"850\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Summer-2021-divider.png 850w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Summer-2021-divider-300x18.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Summer-2021-divider-768x45.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12285\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Enter-the-Giveaway-Summer-2021-1-1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rafflecopter.com\/rafl\/display\/d04251234326\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Enter here for a chance to win a print copy of <em>A Night Twice as Long<\/em> by Andrew Simonet!<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>(International)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Summer-2021-divider.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"850\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Summer-2021-divider.png 850w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Summer-2021-divider-300x18.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Summer-2021-divider-768x45.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12280\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Questions-and-Answers-Summer-2021.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What do you think about <em>A Night Twice as Long<\/em>? Have you added it to your tbr yet? Let me know in the comments and have a splendiferous day!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Kait-Plus-Books-Signature-Summer-2021-1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1322\" height=\"880\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Thursday and welcome to my stop on the blog tour for A NIGHT TWICE AS LONG! I&#8217;m so excited because today I have an interview with Andrew Simonet to share with you! 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