I Crawl Through It
by:
A.S. King (author)
A.S. King (narrator)
A boldly surreal novel from one of the best YA writers working today.Four talented teenagers are traumatized-coping with grief, surviving date rape, facing the anxiety of standardized tests and the neglect of self-absorbed adults--and they'll do anything to escape the pressure. They'll even build...
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A boldly surreal novel from one of the best YA writers working today.Four talented teenagers are traumatized-coping with grief, surviving date rape, facing the anxiety of standardized tests and the neglect of self-absorbed adults--and they'll do anything to escape the pressure. They'll even build an invisible helicopter, to fly far away to a place where everyone will under
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Format: OverDrive MP3 Audiobook
ISBN:
9781478935933
Publish date: 2015-09-22
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc. & Buck 50 Productions, LLC
Pages no: 365
Edition language: English
Like the character in this book who calls herself Stanzi (her real name is never revealed), I am feeling a bit like a tetragametic chimera ("Somewhere in there you used to be fraternal twins. And you blended. Two into one.") Stanzi often refers to having two conflicting halves that want to do opp...
Everyone has their own coping mechanism; it’s how you make through life. The characters in this novel, their means were extraordinary and eccentric but they worked for them. They survived another day and somehow, they did it together and amazing no one really saw them, I mean really saw them. No one...
Four teenagers are on the verge of exploding. The anxieties they face at every turn have nearly pushed them to the point of surrender: senseless high-stakes testing, the lingering damage of past trauma, the buried grief and guilt of tragic loss. They are desperate to cope, but no one is listening.So...
I CRAWL THROUGH IT is the weirdest book I've ever read. Period. Reminiscent of Haruki Murakami's singly unique style, King has delivered yet another standalone masterpiece. Personally, I have a hard time understanding metaphors in fiction, and I struggle with literary writing. I think this book is b...