I Crawl Through It

Description

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 understand them...until they learn the only way to escape reality is to face it head-on.

A.S. King is the author of the highly acclaimed books Glory O'Brien's History of the Future; Reality Boy; Ask the Passengers, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize winner; Everybody Sees the Ants; and the Edgar Award nominated, Michael L. Printz Honor book Please Ignore Vera Dietz. She lives in Pennsylvania.

Praise for I Crawl Through It: A Booklist Editor's Choice Book of 2015 A Booklist Top 50 YA Audiobook Novels of All Time I Crawl Through It proves that A.S. King is one of the most innovative and talented novelists of our time. This is King's masterpiece--a brilliant, paranoid, poetic, funny, and at times overwhelmingly sad literary cocktail of absinthe and Adderall. What a trip!--Andrew Smith, acclaimed author of Winger and Grasshopper Jungle * At once a statement on the culture of modern schools as well as mental health issues, this novel is an ambitious, haunting work of art. --School Library Journal, starred review *Beautiful prose, poetry, and surreal imagery combine for an utterly original story that urges readers to question, love, and believe--or risk explosion. --Booklist, starred review *It's bizarre, compelling, and not like anything else. --Publishers Weekly, starred review *King's novel blends the magical and the mundane in a deadpan delivery that makes it difficult to tell one from the other. This, of course, is the point of her ambitious and affecting work. --The Horn Book, starred review *Masterfully written and brilliantly bizarre, this is King at her most innovative yet. --VOYA, starred review A meditation on grief, guilt, and survival.... Readers [will be] rewarded with the self-actualization of finely wrought characters.... Absolutely worthwhile. --Kirkus Reviews