STEPHEN CHBOSKY
A SINGLE IDEA WAS UPPERMOST IN THE mind of Stephen Chbosky when he began to write his new novel, Imaginary Friend. He was thinking about how, especially as children, we stare at the sky and pick out shapes in clouds. What if, thought Chbosky, a little boy kept seeing the same face staring back? And what if the little boy began to communicate with the cloud?
“I wanted to know what that cloud was, and I wanted to know where it was going, and, speaking via Skype from his office.
