Summary
I’m looking for the Real Solution.
I think it has something to do with giving a shit about people…
To understand anything is to understand energy / anger / love.
A surreal and timely novel about isolation and human connection from Michael L. Printz Award-winner A.S. King.
Time has stopped. It’s been 23 June 2020 for nearly a year. Sixteen-year-old Tru Becker lives in a house with a power switch that no one ever touche…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781922458100 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1922458104 |
| Author: | A.S. King |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Text Publishing Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 3 August 2021 |
| Weight: | 230g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm |
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Critics Review
‘King understands and writes teen anxieties like no other, resulting in difficult, resonant, compelling characters and stories.’
‘One of the best YA writers working today.’ – John Green
‘Anyone who thinks YA books can’t also be great literature needs to read this author.’ – Irish Times
‘King understands and writes teen anxieties like no other, resulting in difficult, resonant, compelling characters and stories.’ – Kirkus
‘Maybe there are writers more adept than King at capturing the outrageous and outraged voice of teenagers, but it’s difficult to think of one.’ – New York Times
‘A.S. King shows a deep understanding of teen anxieties and writes with streetwise humour, tenderness and originality…Hers is a magical style that dances off the page.’ – Otago Daily Times
‘Switch is mind-bending, life-affirming and brilliant. Nobody maps the wilderness of growing up like A. S. King.’ * Vikki Wakefield *
‘As Switch explores the spectrum between isolation and connection, it becomes an unsettling but emotionally resonant novel for our own unsettling times.’ * BookPage *
About The Author
A.S. King
A.S. King is the author of many acclaimed novels and has won the Michael L. Printz Award in 2020 for Dig, a Michael L. Printz Honor in 2011 for Please Ignore Vera Dietz, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in 2012 for Ask the Passengers, The Amelia Walden Award, The Carolyn Field Award, and one time she won £50 on a scratch card.
The New York Times called her ‘one of the best YA writers working today’. King lives in Pennsylvania.
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