![]() ![]() ![]() Geoff, his best friend, just wants Quinn to go outside again he drags Quinn to his first college party. ![]() They called themselves Q & A Productions, and the night of the accident, Quinn stopped writing his screenplay – he has not picked it back up since. Since he was 10, he wanted to make films with girlfriend Annabeth, inspired by a former neighbor who was a screenwriter. He uses video-chat to talk to his therapist. His mother is obese, unemployed and sleeping on the couch, while his father simply isn ’ t there. He stops going to school, charging his phone, and leaving his house in general. After his older sister and creative partner Annabeth are killed in a car accident, Quinn struggles with grief and guilt. Quinn is a 16-year-old who shuts down in the face of tragedy. “ I don ’ t consider myself to be precious, necessarily, but give me air-conditioning or give me death, ” is the first line of the book and it gives readers a pretty good idea of what the narrator, Quinn Roberts, is like melodramatic, sarcastic and relatable. It ’ s a refreshingly real take on grief, sexuality and coming of age. The Great American Whatever, the debut young-adult novel from Tim Federle, is none of these things. In young adult literature, it is rare to find plot lines that does not feel excessive, overdone, and fake. ![]()
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