The teacher’s aggressive actions intensifies the preexisting wedge between the twins and the other children. Abby and Martha’s grandfather’s magic is what killed the other child, so in a way they are implicated - but they’re also innocent. Quiet as it is, this scene functions as a hinge in the novel. Both of these actions seem minor, and if the teacher were defending herself she could easily make them sound reasonable in context - but their impact is maximum cruelty to someone who can’t fight back.
After a classmate dies, she finally gives full vent to this dislike - first by confiscating the plastic beaded bracelet that Abby can’t help fidgeting with, and then by making her lead the class in prayer.
A teacher takes a dislike to the main character, Abby, and her twin sister Martha. The scene that shook me while I was writing it takes place in an elementary school classroom, and if you were observing the characters from the outside nothing particularly dramatic happens. It also wasn’t the scene with the necromancy, or the one where the protagonists are arrested by a bad cop from a backwater jurisdiction, or the one where the titular hawk nearly scalps one of the main characters. The most frightening scene to write wasn’t any of those. There are also two separate gun fights, an oil tanker explosion, a car crash, and a mortal threat to an adorable Labrador Retriever. But when you come from a family where your grandfather frequently took control of your body during your youth, where your mother tried to inhabit your mind and suck your youthful energies out of you, and where so many dark secrets - and bodies, even - are buried, such a family meeting promises to be nothing short of complicated…Īnd now, let’s hear what the scariest part was for Carrie Laben:Ī Hawk in the Woods deals with many sorts of primal fears - everything from terminal illness to body theft and mind control to running from the law to deep-rooted betrayals by the people who should be our closest allies. Their destination is the Waite family cabin in Minnesota where Abby plans a family reunion of sorts. When newscaster Abby Waite is diagnosed with a potentially terminal illness, she decides to do the logical thing…break her twin sister Martha out of prison and hit the road. Now her long-awaited debut novel has finally arrived, titled A Hawk in the Woods. I’ve known Carrie for many years now, and in that time I’ve been lucky enough to watch her writing career flourish. This week on The Scariest Part, my guest is Carrie Laben.
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