Miles Halter arrives at Culver Creek, an Alabama boarding school, seeking a bigger life than the one he had in Florida. His roommate, nicknamed the Colonel, brings him into a circle of friends, and Alaska Young, magnetic and unpredictable, turns the year upside down with pranks, secrets and questions about the labyrinth of suffering. The narrative is structured as a countdown to a single night, then a long aftermath in which the survivors try to understand what happened.
Anyone who likes young-adult fiction that takes loss seriously will want to read this. It captures the way a first love and a first death can both arrive in the same school year.
Inward-looking, contemplative and thought-provoking; an easy read.
Best for readers like The Empathetic Explorer. Which reader are you?
- Published
- 2010
- Publisher
- Rizzoli
- ISBN
- 9788817045193
- Language
- IT
