Millions of other adolescent girls (and boys) have made the same liberating discovery while reading A Wrinkle in Time. “It was almost like your permission to be a real person,” Roy says.
She felt just like the hotheaded, stubborn heroine Meg Murry, and took comfort in the fact that a flawed adolescent girl could save the world. After school, Léna ran to her grandmother’s house, which was around the corner from her school on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, to finish the book on her own. When Léna Roy was 7 years old, her teacher read the first chapter of A Wrinkle in Time aloud to her second-grade class.
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