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261 pp.
| Greenwillow |
April, 2016 |
TradeISBN 978-0-06-223855-9$17.99
(4)
YA
Noah drinks heavily and pines over a male classmate at Westing Academy, where teens infected with a mysterious terminal disease can have a "normal" high-school experience while slowly dying under quarantine. Noah and his friends try to divine meaning from their unique, limited existences in this cerebral near-future dystopia. While the characters' banter is often inscrutably philosophical, relationships between these teens are nuanced and complex.