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When you piss off a bridge into a snowstorm, it feels like you re connecting with eternal things. Paying homage to something or someone. But who? The Druids? Walt Whitman? No, I pay homage to one person only, my brother, my twin. In life. In death. Telemachus. Since the death of his brother, Jonathan s been losing his grip on reality. Last year s Best Young Poet and gifted guitarist is now Taft High School s resident tortured artist, when he bothers to show up. He's on track to repeat eleventh grade, but his English teacher, his principal, and his crew of Thicks (who refuse to be seniors without him) won t sit back and let him fail.

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A 2011 ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults Book <p> Wesselhoeft offers a psychologically complex debut that will intrigue heavy-metal aficionados and drama junkies alike. Peopled with the elderly and infirm, crazy parents, caring educators, and poignant teens trying desperately to overcome death's pull, it mixes real and fictional musicians and historical events to create a moving picture of struggling adolescents and the adults who reach out with helping hands. Adios, Nirvana targets an audience of YAs who rarely see themselves in print. -- Booklist Adios, Nirvana is a bit like road rash. It rakes you raw; gets under your skin; and leaves a few shards stuck permanently in your elbow. It is well worth the trip. --Richie Partington, RichiesPicks.com Scribble its name on a wish list, type it into your PDA, or pre-order it...because to miss it would be shame. This was (without a doubt) the BEST book I have read in a year, and if I could give it 6 stars I would. Get it, live, it

A 2011 ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults Book <p> Wesselhoeft offers a psychologically complex debut that will intrigue heavy-metal aficionados and drama junkies alike. Peopled with the elderly and infirm, crazy parents, caring educators, and poignant teens trying desperately to overcome death's pull, it mixes real and fictional musicians and historical events to create a moving picture of struggling adolescents and the adults who reach out with helping hands. Adios, Nirvana targets an audience of YAs who rarely see themselves in print. -- Booklist Adios, Nirvana is a bit like road rash. It rakes you raw; gets under your skin; and leaves a few shards stuck permanently in your elbow. It is well worth the trip. --Richie Partington, RichiesPicks.com Scribble its name on a wish list, type it into your PDA, or pre-order it...because to miss it would be shame. This was (without a doubt) the BEST book I have read in a year, and if I could give it 6 stars I would. Get it, live, r

@lt;DIV@gt; A 2011 ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults Book@lt;BR@gt;@lt;BR@gt;@lt;BR@gt; Wesselhoeft offers a psychologically complex debut that will intrigue heavy-metal aficionados and drama junkies alike. Peopled with the elderly and infirm, crazy parents, caring educators, and poignant teens trying desperately to overcome death's pull, it mixes real and fictional musicians and historical events to create a moving picture of struggling adolescents and the adults who reach out with helping hands. @lt;I@gt;Adios, Nirvana@lt;/I@gt; targets an audience of YAs who rarely see themselves in print. --@lt;I@gt;Booklist@lt;/P@gt;@lt;/I@gt; @lt;I@gt;Adios, Nirvana@lt;/I@gt; is a bit like road rash. It rakes you raw; gets under your skin; and leaves a few shards stuck permanently in your elbow. It is well worth the trip. --Richie Partington, RichiesPicks.com@lt;/P@gt; Scribble its name on a wish list, type it into your PDA, or pre-order it...because to miss it would be shame. This was (without

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