King, A.
S. (2015). I crawl through it: A novel. New York, NY: Little Brown
and Company.
Summary: This book is told from four different point
of views. Stanzi, Gustav, China, and Lansdale are all students in high school
facing testing week, but with bomb-threats and relocating class outside seems
to put them all over the edge. They are
all bright and internalizing their anxieties in a terrible way. Stanzi is trying to deal or not deal with the
death of her sister, China is coping with a sexual assault and depression,
Lansdale just wants someone to talk to.
Eventually all truths are told and the teens are left in a better place
with their family and friends. I found
this book extremely hard to read. Most
of the time I didn’t “get it”. Which
left me feeling lost and searching for connections. The plot of this book is definitely not
linear. It employs several complex plot characteristics such as flashback and
dual narratives. The conflict lies with
the characters against themselves at times as well as the societal issue of
high-stakes testing and the anxieties that causes with students.
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