Andrew Smith is the Kurt Vonnegut of YA. . . [Smiths novels] are the freshest, richest, and weirdest books to hit the YA world in years. Entertainment Weekly
Skillfully blending multiple story strands that transcend time and place, award-winningGrasshopper Jungleauthor Andrew Smith chronicles the story of Ariel, arefugee who is the sole survivor of an attack on his small village. Now living with an adoptive family in Sunday, West Virginia, Ariel's story is juxtaposed against those of a schizophrenic bomber and the diaries of a failed arctic expedition from the late nineteenth century . . . and a depressed, bionic reincarnated crow.
