"He talks about me droning on and on and, yes, I did that the day of the filibuster," she says, "But I just do that in general. "What she's saying is boring," says Alex in the novel, "it's like everything she says, she finds five words to say it when one would do."ĭavis says she laughed reading Solomon's description of her. Jeff Wilson/Flux Books/North Star Editions
They far outnumbered those against abortion rights, who wore blue.ĭan Solomon covered former Texas state senator Wendy Davis' 13 hour filibuster of an abortion bill. People of all ages on both sides of the abortion debate crowded the Texas State Capitol that day. I'd never seen anything like it," he remembers. Solomon covered Wendy Davis' real-life filibuster for The Austin Chronicle. So begins Dan Solomon's new YA novel The Fight for Midnight. Cassie is against abortion rights and she wants Alex to come support her.Īlex is thrilled, except that he's only vaguely aware of what's going on at the Capitol and never really thought much about abortion. Cassie Ramirez is at the Texas State Capitol where then-state-lawmaker Wendy Davis is about to filibuster a bill that would restrict access to abortion across the state. Then, he gets a call from a girl he's had a crush on since fourth grade.
After getting into some trouble, the 15-year-old has lost most of his friends and is doing community service. Dan Solomon's The Fight for Midnight is a coming-of-age novel set in June of 2013, during former Texas state senator Wendy Davis' 13 hour filibuster of an abortion bill.Īlex Collins is preparing for a lousy summer.
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