Jacket Copy: Miles 'Pudge' Halter is done with his safe life at home. His whole existence has been one big nonevent, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave the 'Great Perhaps' even more. He heads off to the sometimes crazy, possibly unstable, and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed-up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young, who is an event unto herself. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart.
Similar to: Catcher in the Rye, Jay McInerney's The Last of the Savages, Curtis Sittenfeld's Prep
My Take: Rarely do I read a book that changes the way I look at things, by giving me a new perspective to consider that I'd never thought about before. This is one of those books for me, and I'd venture to guess that it could be one of those books for anyone who reads it.
The only way out of the labyrinth is to forgive.
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