The Alex Crow

**A NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST BOOK FOR TEENS • From the award-winning author of Grasshopper Jungle comes an “often humorous and touching sci-fi tome” (USA Today) that will leave you questioning the boundaries of time, space, and the bonds that connect us all.

“A surreal masterpiece.”—People**
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“Andrew Smith is the Kurt Vonnegut of YA . . . [Smith’s novels] are the freshest, richest, and weirdest books to hit the YA world in years.”—Entertainment Weekly
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Skillfully blending multiple story strands that transcend time and place, Andrew Smith chronicles the story of Ariel, a refugee who is the sole survivor of an attack on his small village. Now living with an adoptive family in Sunday, West Virginia, Ariel’s story is juxtaposed against those of a schizophrenic bomber and the diaries of a failed Arctic expedition from the late nineteenth century . . . and a depressed, bionic, reincarnated crow.