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Gallery Books
September 2010
On Sale: August 24, 2010
Featuring: Benji; Hilda
320 pages
ISBN: 1439187592
EAN: 9781439187593
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Young Adult Contemporary
An offbeatΒ and unexpectedly moving debut novel about two teenagers who let their obsession with celebrity death interfere with living life. IN THE END WE ALL FADE TO BLACK. Pink-haired Hilda and oddball loner Benji are not your typical teenagers. Instead of going to parties or hanging out at the mall, they comb the city streets and suburban culs-de-sac of Los Angeles for sites of celebrity murder and suicide. Bound by their interest in the macabre, Hilda and Benji neglect their schoolwork and their social lives in favor of prowling the most notorious crime scenes in Hollywood history and collecting odd mementos of celebrity death. Hilda and Benjiβs morbid pastime takes an unexpected turn when they meet Hank, the elderly, reclusive tenant of a dilapidated Echo Park apartment where a silent movie star once stabbed himself to death with a pair of scissors. Hilda feels a strange connection with Hank and comes to care deeply for her paranoid new friend as they watch old movies together and chat the sweltering afternoons away. But when Hankβs downstairs neighbor Jake, a handsome screenwriter, inserts himself into the equation and begins to hint at Hankβs terrible secrets, Hilda must decide what it is sheβs come to Echo Park searching for . . . and whether her fascination with death is worth missing out on life.
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