Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith gets a new cover for the paperback release on March 10, 2015. Plus read about Andrew Smith’ new novel The Alex Crow.
Smith’s “weirdly compelling” (Kirkus, starred review) fiction has been likened to Kurt Vonnegut (The New York Times Book Review) and “an absurdist Middlesex” (Entertainment Weekly). In March 2015, Penguin will publish Andrew Smith’s new novel The Alex Crow. In this bizarre and brilliant novel, Smith blends multiple story strands that transcend time and place to tell the story of 15-year-old Ariel, a refugee from the Middle East who is the sole survivor of an attack on his small village. Now living with an adoptive family in Sunday, West Virginia, Ariel’s story of his summer at a boys’ camp for tech detox is juxtaposed against those of a schizophrenic bomber, a depressed bionic reincarnated crow, a Siberian iceman and the diaries of a failed arctic expedition from the late nineteenth century.
For those of you familiar with Smith’s work, this description is only a taste of what we can expect from The Alex Crow.
About ‘Grasshopper Jungle’
In the small town of Ealing, Iowa, Austin and his best friend, Robby, have accidentally unleashed an unstoppable army. An army of horny, hungry, six-foot-tall praying mantises that only want to do two things. Grasshopper Jungle was the winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, a Kirkus Best Book of 2014 and a School Library Journal Best Book of 2014. Not to mention it has been optioned for a major motion picture. For more about Grasshopper Jungle read our review.
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