Insightful, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful, this is a vivid portrait of everyday abuse and survival that will linger with readers long after the last page. As Sarah herself often observes, nothing about her pain is remotely original -and yet it still hurts. Now Sarah must come to grips with years spent sleepwalking in the ruins of their toxic marriage. Or maybe she’s finally waking up to the tornado that is her family, the tornado that six years ago sent her once-beloved older brother flying across the country for a reason she can’t quite recall.Īfter decades of staying together “for the kids” and building a family on a foundation of lies and violence, Sarah’s parents have reached the end. And she might be right she does keep running into past and future versions of herself as she explores the urban ruins of Philadelphia.
This is a problem, because as long as she can remember, she has “done the art.” She thinks she’s having an existential crisis. You may find it’s the exact shape and size of the hole in your heart.” "Moving, unapologetically strange, skillfully constructed. "Printz Award winner King returns with another surrealist masterpiece."-Kirkus
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 ★ “King explores the meaning of time and the toxicity of family secrets. But Truda's got a crow bar, and one way or another, she's going to see what happens when she flips the switch. 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. 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. Frantic adults demand teenagers focus on finding practical solutions to the worldwide crisis. It's been Jfor nearly a year as far as anyone can tell. A surreal and timely novel about isolation and human connection from Michael L.
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