Max is the consummate high school overachiever. Straight-A student, debate team captain, future editor of the school paper, dutiful Max does what's expecteduntil the day he inexplicably breaks up with Cindy, his perfect girlfriend. Is their relationship too much to handle on top of everything else? Or is Max just tired of doing everything he's supposed to? As Max begins to question his life, all of the old rules dissolveand he searches in some very unlikely places for new ones. Nelson, it seems, possesses that peculiar and particular ability, granted to only a few the Judy Blumes and J. D. Salingers of this worldto accurately portray the mysterious inner life of the American teenager.
Time Out New York
Fiercely real and really fierce.
Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket)