The story had been filed in Kashmir, near Pakistan, where her family is originally from.
"It's not always clear what the charges are and a lot of these women never find out what's happened to their family member," Tahir says. She was assigned to edit a haunting news story by Emily Wax about women in India whose husbands, sons and brothers had been disappeared by state police. Tahir says she got the germ of the idea for the story in 2007, when she was working as an editor at The Washington Post. Tahir's young adult fantasy series "An Ember in the Ashes" follows a teenage girl fighting against the military empire that threatens her family. And according to author Sabaa Tahir - whose new book, A Torch Against the Night, continues that trend - if you look at today's headlines, the genre's popularity makes sense: After all, the news is where she found her inspiration. There's an insatiable appetite, it seems, for books about young people killing each other in made-up militarized societies. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title A Torch Against the Night Author Sabaa Tahir
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