The Alex Crow

The Alex Crow

<b>“<b>Andrew Smith is the Kurt Vonnegut of YA</b> . . . [Smith’s novels] are the freshest, richest, and weirdest books to hit the YA world in years.” —<i>Entertainment Weekly</i></b><br> <br>Skillfully blending multiple story strands that transcend time and place, award-winning <i>Grasshopper Jungle </i>author Andrew Smith chronicles the story of Ariel, a refugee 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 is juxtaposed against those of a schizophrenic bomber and the diaries of a failed arctic expedition from the late nineteenth century . . . and a depressed, bionic reincarnated crow.