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Nothing
Robin Friedman
出版
North Star Editions, Inc.
, 2011-09-08
主題
Young Adult Fiction / Social Themes / Depression
Young Adult Fiction / Social Themes / Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance
Young Adult Fiction / General
Juvenile Fiction / General
ISBN
0738722332
9780738722337
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=97PJl9tBZWUC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
"Sometimes trees can look healthy on the outside, but actually be dying inside. These trees fall unexpectedly during a storm." For high school senior Parker Rabinowitz, anything less than success is a failure. A dropped extracurricular, a C on a calc quiz, a non-Jewish shiksa girlfriend—one misstep, and his meticulously constructed life splinters and collapses. The countdown to HYP (Harvard, Yale, Princeton) has begun, and he will stay focused. That's why he has to keep it a secret. The pocketful of breath mints. The weird smell in the bathroom. He can't tell his achievement-obsessed father. He can't tell his hired college consultant. And he certainly can't tell Julianne, the "vision of hotness" he so desperately wants to love. Only Parker's little sister Danielle seems to notice that he's withering away. But the thunder of praise surrounding Parker and his accomplishments reduces her voice to broken poetry: I can't breathe when my brother's around because I feel smothered, blank and faded