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279 pp.
| Little |
August, 2013 |
TradeISBN 978-0-316-22133-7$17.99
(2)
YA
Eighteen-year-old Leonard Peacock is packing a handgun and planning to kill his former best friend, then himself. Over the course of one intense day (with flashbacks), Leonard's existential crisis is delineated through an engaging first-person narrative supplemented with letters from the future that urge Leonard to believe in a "life beyond the übermorons" at school. Complicated characters and ideas mark this memorable story.
Reviewer: Dean Schneider
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
July, 2013