Summary
A surreal and timely novel about isolation and human connection from Michael L. Printz Award-winner A.S. King.
Time has stopped. It’s been June 23, 2020 for nearly a year. Frantic adults demand teenagers focus on finding practical solutions to the crisis. Sixteen-year-old javelin-throwing prodigy Tru Becker lives in a house with a switch that no one ever touches, a switch her father guards every day by nailing it into hundreds of larger and larger boxes. Somehow, from box seven, Tru h…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781922458100 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1922458104 |
| Author: | A.S. King |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Text Publishing Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 3 August 2021 |
| Weight: | 230g |
| Dimensions: | 129mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
‘King understands and writes teen anxieties like no other, resulting in difficult, resonant, compelling characters and stories.’
‘One of the best YA writers working today.’ – John Green
‘Anyone who thinks YA books can’t also be great literature needs to read this author.’ – Irish Times
‘King understands and writes teen anxieties like no other, resulting in difficult, resonant, compelling characters and stories.’ – Kirkus
‘Maybe there are writers more adept than King at capturing the outrageous and outraged voice of teenagers, but it’s difficult to think of one.’ – New York Times
‘A.S. King shows a deep understanding of teen anxieties and writes with streetwise humour, tenderness and originality…Hers is a magical style that dances off the page.’ – Otago Daily Times
‘Switch is mind-bending, life-affirming and brilliant. Nobody maps the wilderness of growing up like A. S. King.’ * Vikki Wakefield *
‘As Switch explores the spectrum between isolation and connection, it becomes an unsettling but emotionally resonant novel for our own unsettling times.’ * BookPage *
A.S. King
A.S. King has been profiled in Writer’s Digest magazine and is a member of the Assembly on Literature for Adolescents (ALAN) and the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators.
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