We All Looked Up

Four teens put everything on the line as an asteroid hurtles towards earth in this contemporary YA novel: The Breakfast Clubat the end of the world.

This generation''s The Stand. . . at once troubling, uplifting, scary and heart-wrenching'' Andrew Smith, author of Grasshopper Jungle Before Ardor, we let ourselves be defined by labels - the athlete, the outcast, the slacker, the overachiever. But then we all looked up and everything changed. They said the asteroid would be here in two months. That gave us two months to leave our labels behind. Two months to become something bigger than what we''d been, something that would last even after the end. Two months to really live.

'A glorious, wonderful, completely unforgettable novel.'

Autorentext
Tommy Wallach is a Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter and novelist. His fiction and nonfiction works have appeared in McSweeney's, Tin House, Wired, Salon, and other magazines. As a musician, he has put out an EP with Decca Records and performed at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. We All Looked Up is his debut novel. Read, hear, and stalk him at TommyWallach.com.

Klappentext

The lives of four teens are put on hold when they learn that an asteroid is heading towards Earth. As they wait to see what damage will be caused, they start to assess what they actually want to achieve with their lives.