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Highlights
- A surreal and timely novel about the effects of isolation and what it means to be connected to the world from the Printz Award-winning author of Dig.
- 240 Pages
- Young Adult Fiction, Family
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"Set in a parallel version of America where time has stopped, the novel tells the story of one teenage girl trying to untangle her toxic family's secrets--and maybe restart the world's clocks in the process"--Book Synopsis
A surreal and timely novel about the effects of isolation and what it means to be connected to the world from the Printz Award-winning author of Dig. Time has stopped. It's been June 23, 2020 for nearly a year as far as anyone can tell. Frantic adults demand teenagers focus on finding practical solutions to the worldwide crisis. Not everyone is on board though. Javelin-throwing prodigy Truda Becker is pretty sure her "Solution Time" class won't solve the world's problems, but she does have a few ideas what might. Truda lives in a house with a switch that no one ever touches, a switch her father protects every day by nailing it into hundreds of progressively larger boxes. But Truda's got a crow bar, and one way or another, she's going to see what happens when she flips the switch.Review Quotes
★ "Timely and extraordinary, teen readers will find themselves immersed in this timeless world."--SLJ, starred review ★ "An unsettling but emotionally resonant novel for our own unsettling times."--Bookpage, starred review ★ "King explores the meaning of time and the toxicity of family secrets. This inventive, surreal novel's dedication, 'For the class of 2020, ' makes a direct address to real-life teens' 'lost' COVID-19 year." --Horn Book, starred review "A work of literary genius."--Booklist "Printz Award winner King returns with another surrealist masterpiece."--Kirkus "Poignant, propulsive, and profound."--Publishers Weekly A BookPage Best Book of 2021
A Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2021
About the Author
A.S. King is the award-winning author of many acclaimed books for young readers. Her novel Dig won the 2020 Michael L. Printz Award, and Ask The Passengers won the 2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize. The New York Times called her "one of the best YA writers working today." King lives with her family in Pennsylvania, where she returned after living on a farm and teaching adult literacy in Ireland for more than a decade. www.as-king.comDimensions (Overall): 8.6 Inches (H) x 5.7 Inches (W) x .9 Inches (D)
Weight: .8 Pounds
Suggested Age: 14-17 Years
Sub-Genre: Family
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
Number of Pages: 240
Publisher: Dutton Books for Young Readers
Theme: Siblings
Format: Hardcover
Author: A S King
Language: English
Street Date: May 11, 2021
TCIN: 81992632
UPC: 9780525555513
Item Number (DPCI): 247-26-4143
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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BookFreakOut - 4 years ago
This book is unlike anything I've ever read. Is it a poem? A stream of consciousness? A YA novel? It's all of the above, all at once. Switch is not something that makes sense right off the bat, so jump in with the understanding that you'll need to give it about 50 pages to sync up with the flow of the storytelling style. But don't worry - those pages will fly by. The writing style uses brief sentences / unconventional punctuation / grabs the reader / heals the writer. (That's an example of how certain passages are written, if that wasn't implied clearly enough.) The whole novel isn't like that, and after the initial chapters, the seemingly sporadic train of thought backs off a little and the story begins to emerge more clearly. It's a perfect book for our time, written to help the author navigate a personal tragedy that somehow aligned with the world's need to step back as well. I highly recommend reading the author's Bookpage interview after finishing, as it helped me settle some lingering questions about her thematic intentions.
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Olivia Fink - 4 years ago
It didn’t feel like a finished book. While reading it, it felt like a rough draft with only half a thought not fully formed and executed. This had a lot to do with how the book was written, which I have never seen before. Instead of writing things in complete sentences the book was written abbreviated with backslashes between each thought. A lot of the instances this was used was to resay the same thing in many different ways. Kind of how you would writing a book trying to decide which word or phrase to use. But instead of picking one this book has them all.