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SPONTANEOUS
Aaron Starmer’s SPONTANEOUS is a dark and funny young adult novel: part satire, part mystery, and part romance, full of snappy dialogue, gore, heart, and plenty of detours into the absurd.
Mara Carlyle’s senior year at Covington High in suburban New Jersey is going on as normally as could be expected, until the day—wa-bam!—fellow senior Katelyn Ogden explodes during third period pre-calc. Katelyn is the first, but she won’t be the last senior to explode without warning or explanation. The body count grows and the search is on for a reason—Terrorism! Drugs! Homosexuality! Government conspiracy!—while the seniors continue to pop like balloons.
Mara narrates the end of their world as she knows it with tell-it-like-it-is insight as she tries to make it to graduation in one piece through an explosive year punctuated by romance, quarantine, lifelong friendship, hallucinogenic mushrooms, bloggers, ice cream trucks, “Snooze Button™,” Bon Jovi, and the filthiest language you’ve ever heard the President of the United States use over Skype.
Aaron Starmer rewrites the YA rulebook in SPONTANEOUS, a ridiculously funny, super honest, and truly moving exemplar of the absurd and raw truths of being a teenager in the 21st century . . . and the heartache of saying goodbye.
Aaron Starmer is the author of several middle grade novels, including The Riverman (FSG 2013), a creepy coming-of-age fantasy trilogy, the first book of which made the Wall Street Journal’s Best of 2014 list, and The Only Ones (Yearling 2012) and Dweeb (Delacorte 2009).
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Published 2016-08-01 by Dutton Juvenile |