Author M.T. Anderson believes that for readers of any age, reading historical can be very powerful. Like in his two-part series, The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party and The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves, the past can seem like an alien way of life on many levels. But by reading about those times in the past, we can see elements of ourselves in that strangeness and often reintroduce who we are to ourselves in new and surprising ways.
