Away We Go

By Emil Ostrovski

“Funny, heart-wrenching, and wickedly smart, Away We Go is everything I love best about Emil Ostrovski's writing. This is a great novel!”—Andrew Smith, Printz Honor–winning author of Grasshopper Jungle

With an innovative format that includes interstitial documents, such as flyers, postcards, and handwritten notes, Away We Go is an often funny, honest look at the struggles of first love and tragic heartbreak that will resonate with fans of the critically acclaimed Grasshopper Jungle, by Andrew Smith, and Noggin, by John Corey Whaley.

Westing is not your typical school. For starters, you have to have one very important quality in order to be admitted—you have to be dying. Every student at Westing has been diagnosed with PPV, or the Peter Pan Virus, and no one is expected to live to graduation. What do you do when you go to a high school where no one has a future or any clue how to find meaning in their remaining days?

From the author of the acclaimed The Paradox of Vertical Flight, an Indie Next Pick.

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Release date: Apr 5, 2016
• ISBN: 9780062238573

Emil Ostrovski

Emil Ostrovski emigrated from Russia when he was two years old. He graduated from Vassar College in 2012 with a degree in philosophy and currently attends the MFA program in creative writing at Columbia University. The Paradox of Vertical Flight is his first novel.

Reviews for Away We Go

[reader1009-863136 · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

fiction (older teens - language and adult content); double apocalypse (strange disease dystopia impending asteroid collision) mixed with queer sexual experimentation and identity questioning.

I read to page 40--I couldn't quite follow the timeline with the frequent setting changes and multiple characters, but the pacing was alright. I could recommend this to folks looking for dystopian/apocalyptic LGBTQ lit.