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I Crawl Through It


A Young Adult General Fiction Novel


Subgenres:

  • Surrealist Fiction,
  • Coming-of-Age,
  • Trauma Fiction
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  • Surrealist fiction that dives deep into teenage anxiety
  • Stories where trauma warps reality and coping gets inventive
  • Narratives about resisting relentless pressure from high-stakes testing
Publisher Description

A new edition of Michael L. Printz Award winner A.S. King's brilliant and bizarre story of teenage trauma and standardized tests.

Four accomplished teenagers are on the verge of explosion. The anxieties they face at every turn have nearly pushed them to the point of surrender: senseless high-stakes testing, the lingering damage of trauma, the buried grief and guilt of tragic loss. They are desperate to cope—but no one is listening.

So they will lie. They will split in two. They will turn inside out. They will build an invisible helicopter to fly themselves far away from the pressure…but nothing releases the pressure. Because, as they discover, the only way to truly escape their world is to fly right into it.

A.S. King reaches new heights in this groundbreaking work of surrealist fiction; it will mesmerize readers with its deeply affecting exploration of how we crawl through traumatic experience—and find the way out.

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