It all begins with a fugitive billionaire and the promise of a cash reward. Turtles All the Way Down is about lifelong friendship, the intimacy of an unexpected reunion, Star Wars fan fiction, and tuatara. But at its heart is Aza Holmes, a young woman navigating daily existence within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts.

Zusatztext 109272772 Informationen zum Autor John Green Klappentext FEATURED ON 60 MINUTES and FRESH AIR "So surprising and moving and true that I became completely unstrung." - The New York Times Named a best book of the year by: The New York Times, NPR, TIME, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, Entertainment Weekly, Southern Living, Publishers Weekly, BookPage, A.V. Club, Bustle, BuzzFeed, Vulture, and many more! JOHN GREEN, the acclaimed author of Looking for Alaska and The Fault in Our Stars, returns with a story of shattering, unflinching clarity in this brilliant novel of love, resilience, and the power of lifelong friendship. Aza Holmes never intended to pursue the disappearance of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, but there's a hundred-thousand-dollar reward at stake and her Best and Most Fearless Friend, Daisy, is eager to investigate. So together, they navigate the short distance and broad divides that separate them from Pickett's son Davis. Aza is trying. She is trying to be a good daughter, a good friend, a good student, and maybe even a good detective, while also living within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts. ONE At the time I first realized I might be fictional, my weekdays were spent at a publicly funded institution on the north side of Indianapolis called White River High School, where I was required to eat lunch at a particular timebetween 12:37 p.m. and 1:14 p.m.by forces so much larger than myself that I couldn't even begin to identify them. If those forces had given me a different lunch period, or if the tablemates who helped author my fate had chosen a different topic of conversation that September day, I would've met a different endor at least a different middle. But I was -beginning to learn that your life is a story told about you, not one that you tell. Of course, you pretend to be the author. You have to. You think, I now choose to go to lunch , when that monotone beep rings from on high at 12:37. But really, the bell decides. You think you're the painter, but you're the canvas. Hundreds of voices were shouting over one another in the cafeteria, so that the conversation became mere sound, the rushing of a river over rocks. And as I sat beneath fluorescent cylinders spewing aggressively artificial light, I thought about how we all believed ourselves to be the hero of some personal epic, when in fact we were basically identical organisms colonizing a vast and windowless room that smelled of Lysol and lard. I was eating a peanut butter and honey sandwich and drinking a Dr Pepper. To be honest, I find the whole process of masticating plants and animals and then shoving them down my esophagus kind of disgusting, so I was trying not to think about the fact that I was eating, which is a form of thinking about it. Across the table from me, Mychal Turner was scribbling in a yellow-paper notebook. Our lunch table was like a long-running play on Broadway: The cast changed over the years, but the roles never did. Mychal was The Artsy One. He was talking with Daisy Ramirez, who'd played the role of my Best and Most Fearless Friend since elementary school, but I couldn't follow their conversation over the noise of all the others. What was my part in this play? The Sidekick. I was Daisy's Friend, or Ms. Holmes's Daughter. I was somebody's something. I felt my stomach begin to work on the sandwich, and even over everybody's talking, I could hear it digesting, all the bacteria chewing the slime of peanut butterthe students inside of me eating at my internal cafeteria. A shiver convulsed through me. Didn't you go to camp with him? Daisy asked me. With who? Davis Pickett, she said. Yeah, I said. Why? Aren't you listening? Daisy asked. I am listening , I thought, to the cacophony of my digestive tract</i...

**“A sometimes heartbreaking, always illuminating, glimpse into how it feels to live with mental illness.” – NPR
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#1 *New York Times *Bestseller • #1 *Wall Street Journal *Bestseller • #1 International Bestseller

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“A tender story about learning to cope when the world feels out of control.” —People*

“Green finds the language to describe the indescribable. . . . A must-read for those struggling with mental illness, or for their friends and family.” —San Francisco Chronicle
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“A powerful tale for teens (and adults) about anxiety, love and friendship.” —The Los Angeles Times*

“Wrenching and Revelatory.”** *—***The New York Times

“Tender, wise, and hopeful.” —The Wall Street Journal

“A new modern classic.”** *—***The Guardian

“A thoughtful look at mental illness and a debilitating obsessive-compulsive disorder that doesn’t ask but makes you feel the constant struggles of its main character.’” —USA Today

“**Turtles delivers a lesson that we so desperately need right now: Yes, it is okay not to be okay…. **John Green has crafted a dynamic novel that is deeply honest, sometimes painful, and always thoughtful.” *—*Mashable

“Green does more than write about; he endeavours to write inside…. No matter where you are on the spiral—and we’re all somewhere—Green’s novel makes the trip, either up or down, a less solitary experience.” —The Globe and Mail

“This novel is by far [Green’s] most difficult to read. It’s also** his most astonishing**. . . . So surprising and moving and true that I became completely unstrung. . . . One needn’t be suffering like Aza to identify with it. One need only be human.” *—*Jennifer Senior, The New York Times

“Green’s most authentic and most ambitious work to date.” *—*Bustle

“An existential teenage scream.” *—*Vox

“Funny, clever, and populated with endearing characters.” —Entertainment Weekly

“An **incredibly powerful **tale of the pain of mental illness, the pressures of youth, and coming of age when you feel like you’re coming undone.” *—*Shelf Awareness

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