I’ve felt more and more a sense that people who are weak, and people who are disenfranchised and people who aren’t the standard, white American, are being marginalized,” King says. “All I can say is that I wrote it in the Trump era. The broad strokes of “The Institute" began to parallel what was happening in real life: Children, seeking asylum at the border, were being removed from their parents under the administration’s family separation policy. As the New York Times writes: As King neared completion of the book last summer, things got weird. And if that sounds like it echoes real-life recent events-the crisis at the border where families are being separated and held in what some call concentration camps-it wasn't intentional. He's discussing his latest novel The Institute, which follows a group of children with supernatural abilities who are abducted by a mysterious organization.
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