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I Crawl Through It
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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.
The genius of acclaimed author A.S. King reaches new heights in this groundbreaking work of surrealist fiction; it will mesmerize readers with its deeply affecting exploration of how we crawl through traumatic experience--and find the way out.
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.
The genius of acclaimed author A.S. King reaches new heights in this groundbreaking work of surrealist fiction; it will mesmerize readers with its deeply affecting exploration of how we crawl through traumatic experience--and find the way out.
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Reviews for I Crawl Through It
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5It's A.S. King, so it's emotionally devastating.
But, it's also really fucking weird and I'm not sure how I feel about its particular weirdness. Some of the weirdness felt like metaphor, but much of the plot didn't make sense unless the weirdness was literal and...fuck it.It's weird, it's powerful and it'll either work for you or it won't. Just try to turn off the logic center in your brain when you start reading. The best way to make sense of this book is to not try to make sense of it at all. - Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Honestly I'm not really sure what to say about this book. Nothing made sense, until nearly the very end. Just an odd book. Good, but odd.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A group of high school friends all have anxiety and family issues from a variety of causes. In addition, someone keeps calling bomb threats into their school disrupting standardized testing.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5To even begin to describe this is to not do it justice. You must just go for the ride. A.S. King is a master in all she does and this is another heart-breaking great one.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Okay, this book is super weird and I absolutely loved it. I took most of the meanings and descriptions in this book as literal, because it made the most sense to me that way. However, I would often think about things metaphorically in retrospect, as it added more dimensions to the characters and plot. For example, China, the girl who turned herself inside out, is kind of creepy to imagine as a walking digestive system, but that concept, putting on a front to make everyone think that you're okay, is a universal coping mechanism. In fact, everyone has an odd coping mechanism in the book which is sometimes conveyed very strangely, but when thought about metaphorically, makes absolute sense. Even the minor characters are shown to have ways of dealing with reality. The bush man is an easy-to-love character and I'm so amused by the concept of the invisible helicopter that only some people can see. Also, I appreciated all the M*A*S*H and Amadeus references. I appear to be in the minority, but for me, this book was a really fascinating look into the stresses and pressures everyone feels and how we choose to deal with them.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A.S. King seems to have channeled Kurt Vonnegut in this surreal trip through the fraught lives of four high school students. This was a strangely fascinating and deeply affecting story about trauma and the lengths these teens will go to in order to cope in their daily lives. Not an easy read, but certainly a compelling one.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I understood only that the four main characters were in pain and trying to find ways to fix it-but not much else. The symbolism?surrealism? was way over my head.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A weird, overly complicated, surrealistic read about a whole host of overly complicated, surrealistic, broken teenagers, putting in time at a school with daily bomb threats and assessment tests. It seems like a bizarre book. It very quickly becomes compulsively readable, almost hypnotic, and very hard hitting in the realistic portrayal of contemporary teen life. A.S. King is a genius at that sort of thing. This book grabs you by the throat and shakes you. You think you're following Alice down the rabbit hole and that it will never resolve. But it does. The mysteries that were never that deeply beneath the surface come to light. The fractured friendship where we turn a blind eye to each other's suffering while trying to support each other turns out to be enough. We keep crawling through it.
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Rape. Grief. Death of a child. Bomb scares. School Shootings. The futility of assessment testing. Assault. Insanity. Survival. - Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Reading this book was an experience. It was messy and confusing and utterly weird at times, but I never wanted to just stop reading it. I'm not really sure I understand "I Crawl Through It" - perhaps that understanding comes with time - but I can definitely see A.S. King's creativity throughout the book and her writing style is so unique it's utterly captivating. It's YA without being totally YA, it's fiction without being totally fiction; "I Crawl Through It" is a twisted beauty of a book.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I have pretty much loved all the books I have read by AS King. To date I have read The Dust of 100 Dogs, Reality Boy, and Everybody Sees the Ants and loved them all. I didn’t like this book quite as much as those ones, but it was still a very well done story that is a bit mind-bending and surreal.This story follows four incredibly talented teenagers as they cope with past tragedy in different ways. The first character (and main one) is Stanzi; Stanzi believes she is two people in one body and they struggle against each other. The second is her neighbor, and best friend Gustav, who spends most of his time building an invisible helicopter. The third is China, one of Stanzi’s friends, who has swallowed herself and is now an inside out girl. The last is Lansdale, one of China’s other friends, who is a habitual liar and can’t ever seem to tell the truth. This book is about their struggle dealing with past trauma and trying to live in the real world.Now I won’t talk about the trauma all our characters have endured, it is different for each character and spans different degrees of trauma. Discovering what happened to these characters to lead them to be the way they are is part of the journey. And that is really what this story is, a magical and surreal journey through the reality these characters make for themselves.Overhanging the whole story is the constant bomb threats that their school receives. These bomb threats are so common that the students and staff have come to see them as the norm. Yet, still this threat of violence and death constantly hangs over their everyday lives.There are a bevy of strange side characters in here. My favorite (and one of the strangest) was the naked bush man, who hides in the bush naked and gives out elaborate letters (like “a”, “q”, etc) to those who pass. Personally I thought he was a bit freaky, but then as the story progresses you get to know him and find out that even he has a method to his madness.As mentioned above the story is surreal and ambiguous. The reader is left with a number of questions...is Stanzi really two people, is China really literally inside out, and does Gustav really have an invisible helicopter, or is all this just an analogy? The whole thing is a bit of a mind trip. Yet it is all the more entertaining because the answer to all those questions is yes. If you believe Gustav has an invisible helicopter then he does, why not? Or you could say that this is an analogy for a long personal journey. Is China really inside out? Sure she could be, anything is possible...or could she just feel exposed to the world around her because of what she’s been through.In a way this is a coming of age story for all of these characters, a commentary on society today, a heartbreaking story about the pain of life and how to cope, and a magical story about riding in an invisible helicopter...really it’s all those things and very well done. The basic message is this, we make our own realities and crawl through them until we finally find the one we want to live in.I should mention I would recommend for older YA. There are some violent things in here and swearing; so that’s a heads up for those concerned about that.Overall an incredibly well done story about pain and reality and surviving it. The story is heartfelt, surreal, a bit ambiguous, and magical. I think this is another great book by AS King and I would highly recommend to those who don’t mind their contemporary fiction having a bit of crazy ambiguity to it. Loved this book and can’t wait to read some of her others.