If it ain’t broke…
By amy ross. Filed in books |Tags: authors I know, bones, books for boys, break, cutting, hannah moskowitz, Jackass, self-injury, SI, YA lit
Teenage wunderkind Hannah Moskowitz’s novel is finally out! And I’m not kidding when I call her a wunderkind: not only Hannah is starting school at Brown University this fall, she wrote Break in six days (yes, that’s days), and already has two other novels on submission.
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Jonah is on a mission to break every bone in his body. Everyone knows that broken bones grow back stronger than they were before. And Jonah wants to be stronger—needs to be stronger—because everything around him is falling apart. Breaking, and then healing, is Jonah’s only way to cope with the stresses of home, girls, and the world on his shoulders.
When Jonah’s self-destructive spiral accelerates and he hits rock bottom, will he find true strength or surrender to his breaking point?
“[F]or those with a taste for the macabre and an aversion to the sentimental, it’s hard not to be taken in by the book’s strong central relationships….[Break] is like a one-man Fight Club, and it could find nearly as many ardent followers” –Booklist, starred review
