Quem é Você, Alasca?

Miles Halter, a quiet teenager who collects famous last words, leaves Florida for Culver Creek, an Alabama boarding school, hoping to find what the poet Rabelais called the Great Perhaps. There he meets his roommate the Colonel and Alaska Young, a brilliant, reckless girl who reads constantly and drinks too much. The book is split into "before" and "after," counting down to an event that changes all of them, and the second half deals with guilt and unanswered questions.

Teenagers and adults who remember intense school friendships will recognize the pranks, the cigarettes and the late-night talks. It is a story about grief that does not give tidy answers, and about how a person can stay a mystery even to those who love them.

Inward-looking, contemplative and thought-provoking; an easy read.

Best for readers like The Empathetic Explorer. Which reader are you?