Tripping Back Blue

by Kara Storti

Overview

Finn is a 17-year-old full of paradoxes. He's a drug dealer, but he's scoring money to send his twin sister to Harvard. He's desperate to shoot up even though he's the most popular kid in Dammertown. He's a philosopher and orator who's failing all his classes. The only time he finds peace is when he's bird-watching. Finn's life begins to spiral out of control, until he discovers a miracle drug called indigo. Finn is convinced that the drug is the way out of everything broken in his life. But is it really as magical as it seems?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781512407648
Publisher:	Lerner Publishing Group
Publication date:	04/01/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	368
File size:	8 MB
Age Range:	14 - 17 Years

About the Author

Kara Storti graduated from the University of Southern Maine with an MFA in Creative Writing, where she fell in love with writing novels for young adults. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Tripping Back Blue is her first book.

Editorial Reviews

"Not for the fainthearted, Tripping Back Blue snares attention, thanks to the complexity of its deeply flawed but fascinating narrator."—Star Tribune

From the Publisher

2015-12-22
A teen who deals drugs to pay for his twin sister's college tuition is introduced to a mysterious hallucinogen he's never before encountered. High school senior Finn, with a scar on his face that "distinguishes [him] from every other white dude," is a master at charming his way into and out of most situations. Though he's highly intelligent, with an almost-encyclopedic knowledge of nature, particularly of ornithology, he's developed a rough exterior that allows him to finesse his way in school, with girls, and in the drug world. Though it's for the benefit of his sister, Faith, who has been accepted to Harvard, he tries to keep his dealing a secret from her. As the novel progresses and Finn begins not only selling heroin, but using it, he falls for Stacey, whose grandmother has access to an otherworldly substance he dubs indigo; using it as well, he begins to lose himself. This unusual and distinctive tale of family violence, addiction, and hope is fascinating, and the back story of indigo is richly imagined and compelling. Finn's tough-talking dialogue occasionally feels a bit over-the-top for a teen, such as when he angrily refers to Stacey as "sweetheart," "babe" and "darlin' " all in the space of two paragraphs, but he is an authentically complex and likable narrator. An emotional and original debut novel that will hook older teen readers and young adults. (Fiction. 14 & up)

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