Spontaneous
by:
Aaron Starmer (author)
Julie Strauss-Gabel at Dutton has bought Spontaneous, the YA debut of The Riverman author Aaron Starmer. Students are exploding at Covington High School. In this black comedy, one spontaneous combustion is an anomaly, two is coincidence, and three marks a pattern. Publication is planned for 2016;...
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Julie Strauss-Gabel at Dutton has bought Spontaneous, the YA debut of The Riverman author Aaron Starmer. Students are exploding at Covington High School. In this black comedy, one spontaneous combustion is an anomaly, two is coincidence, and three marks a pattern. Publication is planned for 2016; Michael Bourret at Dystel & Goderich negotiated the deal for North Americ
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Format: Hardcover
Edition language: English
Here’s what happens when a guy blows up during your group therapy session that’s supposed to make you feel better about people blowing up. The group therapy session is officially cancelled. You do not feel better. Okay, right off the bat, before we get into all the awesome things about this story...
WTF?!?!? This was weird. Fake deep, wondering why the hell I read it. Pointless. Nothings found out, nothing is resolved, nothing happens but a bunch of kids blow up for no reason and the protagonist does drugs and loses her virginity and fucks over her best friend. And ya'll know me so it's not t...
I received this book through an offer from Penguin's First to Read. Unfortunately, it didn't work for me and I'm DNFing and just over 100 pages. It was on my August release list, interesting idea, a small town with high school aged kids randomly exploding and a very snarky protagonist. My biggest ...