I wrote Dragonfly about and for those who’ve not been so lucky. For whatever reasons, many young people slip through the cracks in the asphalt of our society. Coming from homes where their caregivers are so wrapped up in their own problems that they fail to give their children the attention and emotional nourishment they need to navigate the potholes of what can be a very dangerous world. Having run away from home when I was young (for reasons that had nothing to do with my parents but rather a quest for adventure), I met a lot of these kids and gained a respect for their resourcefulness and ingenuity in finding ways to survive without the help of anyone else.