Turtles All the Way Down
(Sprache: Englisch)
It all begins with a fugitive billionaire and the promise of a cash reward. Turtles All the Way Down is about lifelong friendship, the intimacy of an unexpected reunion, Star Wars fan fiction, and tuatara. But at its heart is Aza Holmes, a young woman...
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It all begins with a fugitive billionaire and the promise of a cash reward. Turtles All the Way Down is about lifelong friendship, the intimacy of an unexpected reunion, Star Wars fan fiction, and tuatara. But at its heart is Aza Holmes, a young woman navigating daily existence within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts.
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The wait is over! John Green, the #1 bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars, is back. It all begins with a fugitive billionaire and the promise of a cash reward. Turtles All the Way Down is about lifelong friendship, the intimacy of an unexpected reunion, Star Wars fan fiction, and tuatara. But at its heart is Aza Holmes, a young woman navigating daily existence within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts. In his long-awaited return, John Green shares Aza's story with shattering, unflinching clarity.
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ONEAt the time I first realized I might be fictional, my weekdays were spent at a publicly funded institution on the north side of Indianapolis called White River High School, where I was required to eat lunch at a particular time between 12:37 p.m. and 1:14 p.m. by forces so much larger than myself that I couldn t even begin to identify them. If those forces had given me a different lunch period, or if the tablemates who helped author my fate had chosen a different topic of conversation that September day, I would ve met a different end or at least a different middle. But I was -beginning to learn that your life is a story told about you, not one that you tell.
Of course, you pretend to be the author. You have to. You think, I now choose to go to lunch, when that monotone beep rings from on high at 12:37. But really, the bell decides. You think you re the painter, but you re the canvas.
Hundreds of voices were shouting over one another in the cafeteria, so that the conversation became mere sound, the rushing of a river over rocks. And as I sat beneath fluorescent cylinders spewing aggressively artificial light, I thought about how we all believed ourselves to be the hero of some personal epic, when in fact we were basically identical organisms colonizing a vast and windowless room that smelled of Lysol and lard.
I was eating a peanut butter and honey sandwich and drinking a Dr Pepper. To be honest, I find the whole process of masticating plants and animals and then shoving them down my esophagus kind of disgusting, so I was trying not to think about the fact that I was eating, which is a form of thinking about it.
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Across the table from me, Mychal Turner was scribbling in a yellow-paper notebook. Our lunch table was like a long-running play on Broadway: The cast changed over the years, but the roles never did. Mychal was The Artsy One. He was talking with Daisy Ramirez, who d played the role of my Best and Most Fearless Friend since elementary school, but I couldn t follow their conversation over the noise of all the others.
What was my part in this play? The Sidekick. I was Daisy s Friend, or Ms. Holmes s Daughter. I was somebody s something.
I felt my stomach begin to work on the sandwich, and even over everybody s talking, I could hear it digesting, all the bacteria chewing the slime of peanut butter the students inside of me eating at my internal cafeteria. A shiver convulsed through me.
Didn t you go to camp with him? Daisy asked me.
With who?
Davis Pickett, she said.
Yeah, I said. Why?
Aren t you listening? Daisy asked. I am listening, I thought, to the cacophony of my digestive tract. Of course I d long known that I was playing host to a massive collection of parasitic organisms, but I didn t much like being reminded of it. By cell count, humans are approximately 50 percent microbial, meaning that about half of the cells that make you up are not yours at all. There are something like a thousand times more microbes living in my particular biome than there are human beings on earth, and it often seems like I can feel them living and breeding and dying in and on me. I wiped my sweaty palms on my jeans and tried to control my breathing. Admittedly, I have some anxiety problems, but I would argue it isn t irrational to be concerned about the fact that you are a skin-encased bacterial colony.
Mychal said, His dad was about to be arrested for bribery or something, but the night before the raid he disappeared. There s a hundred-thousand-dollar reward out for him.
And you know his kid, Daisy said.
Knew him, I answered.
I watched Daisy attack
Across the table from me, Mychal Turner was scribbling in a yellow-paper notebook. Our lunch table was like a long-running play on Broadway: The cast changed over the years, but the roles never did. Mychal was The Artsy One. He was talking with Daisy Ramirez, who d played the role of my Best and Most Fearless Friend since elementary school, but I couldn t follow their conversation over the noise of all the others.
What was my part in this play? The Sidekick. I was Daisy s Friend, or Ms. Holmes s Daughter. I was somebody s something.
I felt my stomach begin to work on the sandwich, and even over everybody s talking, I could hear it digesting, all the bacteria chewing the slime of peanut butter the students inside of me eating at my internal cafeteria. A shiver convulsed through me.
Didn t you go to camp with him? Daisy asked me.
With who?
Davis Pickett, she said.
Yeah, I said. Why?
Aren t you listening? Daisy asked. I am listening, I thought, to the cacophony of my digestive tract. Of course I d long known that I was playing host to a massive collection of parasitic organisms, but I didn t much like being reminded of it. By cell count, humans are approximately 50 percent microbial, meaning that about half of the cells that make you up are not yours at all. There are something like a thousand times more microbes living in my particular biome than there are human beings on earth, and it often seems like I can feel them living and breeding and dying in and on me. I wiped my sweaty palms on my jeans and tried to control my breathing. Admittedly, I have some anxiety problems, but I would argue it isn t irrational to be concerned about the fact that you are a skin-encased bacterial colony.
Mychal said, His dad was about to be arrested for bribery or something, but the night before the raid he disappeared. There s a hundred-thousand-dollar reward out for him.
And you know his kid, Daisy said.
Knew him, I answered.
I watched Daisy attack
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John Green
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- Autor: John Green
- Altersempfehlung: Ab 14 Jahre
- 2017, 304 Seiten, Maße: 14,9 x 22,1 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Penguin US
- ISBN-10: 0525555366
- ISBN-13: 9780525555360
- Erscheinungsdatum: 26.09.2017
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
A sometimes heartbreaking, always illuminating, glimpse into how it feels to live with mental illness. NPRA New York Times Notable Book A New York Times Critics Top Book of the Year An NPR Best Book of the Year A TIME Best Book of the Year A Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year A Boston Globe Best Book of the Year An Entertainment Weekly Best Book of the Year A Seventeen Best Book of the Year A Southern Living Best Book of the Year A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year A Booklist Editors' Choice Selection A BookPage Best Book of the Year An SLJ Best Book of the Year An A.V. Club Best Book of the Year A Bustle Best Book of the Year A BuzzFeed Best Book of the Year A Pop Sugar Best Book of the Year A Vulture Best Book of the Year
#1 New York Times Bestseller #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller #1 International Bestseller
Featured on 60 Minutes, Fresh Air, Studio 360, Good Morning America, The TODAY Show
A tender story about learning to cope when the world feels out of control. People
Green finds the language to describe the indescribable. . . . A must-read for those struggling with mental illness, or for their friends and family. San Francisco Chronicle
A powerful tale for teens (and adults) about anxiety, love and friendship. The Los Angeles Times
Wrenching and Revelatory. The New York Times
Tender, wise, and hopeful. The Wall Street Journal
A new modern classic. The Guardian
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A thoughtful look at mental illness and a debilitating obsessive-compulsive disorder that doesn t ask but makes you feel the constant struggles of its main character. USA Today
Turtles delivers a lesson that we so desperately need right now: Yes, it is okay not to be okay . John Green has crafted a dynamic novel that is deeply honest, sometimes painful, and always thoughtful. Mashable
Green does more than write about; he endeavours to write inside . No matter where you are on the spiral and we re all somewhere Green s novel makes the trip, either up or down, a less solitary experience. The Globe and Mail
This novel is by far [Green s] most difficult to read. It s also his most astonishing. . . . So surprising and moving and true that I became completely unstrung. . . . One needn t be suffering like Aza to identify with it. One need only be human. Jennifer Senior, The New York Times
Green s most authentic and most ambitious work to date. Bustle
An existential teenage scream. Vox
Funny, clever, and populated with endearing characters. Entertainment Weekly
An incredibly powerful tale of the pain of mental illness, the pressures of youth, and coming of age when you feel like you re coming undone. Shelf Awareness
A richly rewarding read the most mature of Green s work to date and deserving of all the accolades that are sure to come its way. Booklist
In an age where troubling events happen almost weekly, this deeply empathetic novel about learning to live with demons and love one s imperfect self is timely and important. Publishers Weekly
A deeply resonant and powerful novel that will inform and enlighten readers even as it breaks their hearts. A must-buy. School Library Journal
Praise for John Green
- 50 million books in print worldwide -
#1 New York Times Bestseller
#1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller
#1 USA Today Bestseller
#1 International Bestseller
Michael L. Printz Award Winner
Michael L. Printz Honor Winner
Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist
TIME 100 Most Influential People
Forbes Celebrity 100
NPR's 100 Best-Ever Teen Novels
TIME Magazine's 100 Best Young Adult Books of All Time
Critical acclaim for The Fault in Our Stars:
Damn near genius . . . The Fault in Our Stars is a love story, one of the most genuine and moving ones in recent American fiction, but it s also an existential tragedy of tremendous intelligence and courage and sadness. Lev Grossman, TIME Magazine
This is a book that breaks your heart not by wearing it down, but by making it bigger until it bursts. The Atlantic
Remarkable . . . A pitch-perfect, elegiac comedy. USA Today
[Green s] voice is so compulsively readable that it defies categorization. You will be thankful for the little infinity you spend inside this book. NPR.org
John Green deftly mixes the profound and the quotidian in this tough, touching valentine to the human spirit. The Washington Post
[Green] shows us true love two teenagers helping and accepting each other through the most humiliating physical and emotional ordeals and it is far more romantic than any sunset on the beach. New York Times Book Review
Turtles delivers a lesson that we so desperately need right now: Yes, it is okay not to be okay . John Green has crafted a dynamic novel that is deeply honest, sometimes painful, and always thoughtful. Mashable
Green does more than write about; he endeavours to write inside . No matter where you are on the spiral and we re all somewhere Green s novel makes the trip, either up or down, a less solitary experience. The Globe and Mail
This novel is by far [Green s] most difficult to read. It s also his most astonishing. . . . So surprising and moving and true that I became completely unstrung. . . . One needn t be suffering like Aza to identify with it. One need only be human. Jennifer Senior, The New York Times
Green s most authentic and most ambitious work to date. Bustle
An existential teenage scream. Vox
Funny, clever, and populated with endearing characters. Entertainment Weekly
An incredibly powerful tale of the pain of mental illness, the pressures of youth, and coming of age when you feel like you re coming undone. Shelf Awareness
A richly rewarding read the most mature of Green s work to date and deserving of all the accolades that are sure to come its way. Booklist
In an age where troubling events happen almost weekly, this deeply empathetic novel about learning to live with demons and love one s imperfect self is timely and important. Publishers Weekly
A deeply resonant and powerful novel that will inform and enlighten readers even as it breaks their hearts. A must-buy. School Library Journal
Praise for John Green
- 50 million books in print worldwide -
#1 New York Times Bestseller
#1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller
#1 USA Today Bestseller
#1 International Bestseller
Michael L. Printz Award Winner
Michael L. Printz Honor Winner
Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist
TIME 100 Most Influential People
Forbes Celebrity 100
NPR's 100 Best-Ever Teen Novels
TIME Magazine's 100 Best Young Adult Books of All Time
Critical acclaim for The Fault in Our Stars:
Damn near genius . . . The Fault in Our Stars is a love story, one of the most genuine and moving ones in recent American fiction, but it s also an existential tragedy of tremendous intelligence and courage and sadness. Lev Grossman, TIME Magazine
This is a book that breaks your heart not by wearing it down, but by making it bigger until it bursts. The Atlantic
Remarkable . . . A pitch-perfect, elegiac comedy. USA Today
[Green s] voice is so compulsively readable that it defies categorization. You will be thankful for the little infinity you spend inside this book. NPR.org
John Green deftly mixes the profound and the quotidian in this tough, touching valentine to the human spirit. The Washington Post
[Green] shows us true love two teenagers helping and accepting each other through the most humiliating physical and emotional ordeals and it is far more romantic than any sunset on the beach. New York Times Book Review
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