5/30/2023 0 Comments Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew SmithAustin Szerba likes to tell history, and when a slippery slope starts the end of the world, he has a lot of history to tell. He spends most of his time with his gay best friend Robby and his girlfriend Shann in their small Iowan hometown. Austin Szerba is a chain-smoking, sexually-confused 16-year-old boy. I received nothing in return for this review aside from temporary (insert super sad face emoticon here) access to Grasshopper Jungle, which is to be released on January 29. Or rather, I used a significant amount of coins to guarantee a copy, because I just knew that this novel was going to be fantastic. I won an ARC of Grasshopper Jungle from Penguin's First to Read giveaway. Lewis Carroll said something like that once. "There are things in here: babies with two heads, insects as big as refrigerators, God, the devil, limbless warriors, rocket ships, sex, diving bells, theft, wars, monsters, internal combustion engines, love, cigarettes, joy, bomb shelters, pizza, and cruelty." From the first page a memorable ride begins, and it goes on until the last page, where it ends.
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