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Benwell, Sarah

The Last Leaves Falling

360 pp. | Simon | May, 2015 | Trade ISBN 978-1-4814-3065-4 $17.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-1-4814-3067-8
(1) YA Sora, seventeen, has ALS--"an old man's disease"--and knows he's going to die in a few years. First, however, he'll become a "vegetable." After Sora meets Mai and Kairo online and the three become inseparable, he asks them to help fulfill his dying wish: to die before he becomes helpless. Benwell's story is remarkably unsentimental, and her setting--contemporary urban Japan--adds unique appeal.
Reviewer: Jennifer M. Brabander | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2015

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