I Crawl Through It

I Crawl Through It by A.S. King, 319 pages

“Four teenagers are on the verge of exploding. The anxieties they face at every turn have nearly pushed them to the point of surrender: senseless high-stakes testing, the lingering damage of past trauma, the buried grief and guilt of tragic loss. They are desperate to cope, but no one is listening.  So they will lie. They will split in two. They will turn inside out. They will even build an invisible helicopter to fly themselves far away...but nothing releases the pressure. Because, as they discover, the only way to truly escape their world is to fly right into it.”  I’m honestly not sure that I completely understood what was going on in this book.  It wasn’t awful but it’s not my favorite by King.  I would probably only recommend this to teens that had read and liked her previous books.