![]() ★ “Quick’s use of flashbacks, internal dialogue, and interpersonal communication is brilliant, and the suspense about what happened between Leonard and Asher builds tangibly. “Books like Quick’s are necessary…We should be grateful for a book that gets kids, and the leaders they’ll become, thinking about the problem now.” - The New York Times ![]() In this riveting book, acclaimed author Matthew Quick unflinchingly examines the impossible choices that must be made–and the light in us all that never goes out. Speaking to each in turn, Leonard slowly reveals his secrets as the hours tick by and the moment of truth approaches. Because today is the day he will kill his former best friend, and then himself, with his grandfather’s P-38 pistol.īut first he must say good-bye to the four people who matter most to him: his Humphrey Bogart–obsessed next-door neighbor, Walt his classmate Baback, a violin virtuoso Lauren, the Christian homeschooler he has a crush on and Herr Silverman, who teaches the high school’s class on the Holocaust. It is also the day he hides a gun in his backpack. ![]() ![]() Curriculum Subject: Guidance/Health: Death, Guidance/Health: Abuse, Family Life: SchoolĮducator Guide Book Club Discussion Guide ![]()
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