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A NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST BOOK FOR TEENS • From the award-winning author of Grasshopper Jungle comes an “often humorous and touching sci-fi tome” (USA Today) that will leave you questioning the boundaries of time, space, and the bonds that connect us all.
“A surreal masterpiece.”—People
“Andrew Smith is the Kurt Vonnegut of YA . . . [Smith’s novels] are the freshest, richest, and weirdest books to hit the YA world in years.”—Entertainment Weekly
Skillfully blending multiple story strands that transcend time and place, Andrew Smith chronicles the story of Ariel, a refugee who is the sole survivor of an attack on his small village. Now living with an adoptive family in Sunday, West Virginia, Ariel’s story is juxtaposed against those of a schizophrenic bomber and the diaries of a failed Arctic expedition from the late nineteenth century . . . and a depressed, bionic, reincarnated crow.
Andrew Smith
Andrew Smith has always wanted to be a writer. After graduating college, he wrote for newspapers and radio stations, but found it wasn't the kind of writing he'd dreamed about doing. Born with an impulse to travel, Smith, the son of an immigrant, bounced around the world and from job to job, before settling down in Southern California. There, he got his first ‘real job’, as a teacher in an alternative educational program for at-risk teens, married, and moved to a rural mountain location.
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