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Razorbill
July 2016
On Sale: July 19, 2016
372 pages
ISBN: 1595147152
EAN: 9781595147158
Kindle: B0177AGO00
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Young Adult
After the unexpected loss of his girlfriend, a teenage
boy suffering from delusions is convinced that he can travel
through time to save her, in this gripping new novel from
New York Times bestselling author Beth Revis. Seventeen-year-old Bo has always had delusions that he can
travel through time. When he was ten, Bo claimed to have
witnessed the Titanic hit an iceberg, and at fifteen, he
found himself on a Civil War battlefield, horrified by the
bodies surrounding him. So when his concerned parents send
him to a school for troubled youth, Bo assumes he knows the
truth: that he’s actually attending Berkshire Academy, a
school for kids who, like Bo, have "superpowers." At Berkshire, Bo falls in love with Sofia, a quiet girl with
a tragic past and the superpower of invisibility. Sofia
helps Bo open up in a way he never has before. In turn, Bo
provides comfort to Sofia, who lost her mother and two
sisters at a very young age. But even the strength of their love isn’t enough to help
Sofia escape her deep depression. After she commits suicide,
Bo is convinced that she's not actually dead. He believes
that she's stuck somewhere in time — that he somehow left
her in the past, and now it's his job to save her. Not since Ned Vizzini’s It’s Kind of a Funny Story
has there been such a heartrending depiction of mental
illness. In her first contemporary novel, Beth Revis guides
readers through the mind of a young man struggling to
process his grief as he fights his way through his
delusions. As Bo becomes more and more determined to save
Sofia, he has to decide whether to face his demons head-on,
or succumb to a psychosis that will let him be with the girl
he loves.
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