The November Criminals

The November Criminals

Sam Munson

WHAT ARE YOUR BEST AND WORST QUALITIES?’

This is the title of the essay Addison Schacht has to submit to gain a place at his chosen university. Straightaway, Addison, 18, sees an opportunity to tell his story-so-far: to unburden himself, so to speak.

And boy is there a lot to unburden.

His business – dealing pot to his peers – is booming. His relationship with Digger, his best friend (NOT girlfriend) is getting more and more ‘complicated’. His classmate Kevin Broadus was murdered point blank, and now Addison can’t stop thinking about who killed him, and why? And then there’s the small question of the rest of his life . . . Over the course of his unorthodox application, Addison confesses his triumphs, tragedies, strengths, weaknesses, blessings and curses to his academic jury.

Fans of THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER will love this truth-telling debut, and Addison Schacht finds good company among American literature’s cadre of unsettled, restless youth from Huck Finn to Holden Caulfield.

A thoughtful coming-of-age story and an engaging teenage noir. Think of it as an existential murder mystery for the stoner pre-college set – New York Times

One of the funniest, most heartfelt novels in recent memory-a book every bit as worthy of Mark Twain and J. D. Salinger-about the goodwill and decency that sometimes shrouds itself in adolescent vulgarity and swagger – Chicago Tribune

Schacht really is Holden’s amoral 21st-century cousin: He shares the profane slanginess and the petulant self-righteousness of Salinger’s famous malcontent – Washington Post

A classic coming-of-age tale: getting into college, smoking dope, navigating best-friendship with someone of the opposite sex – oh, and investigating a classmate’s murder – Vanity Fair

This book is a must read for all teenagers. Buy it at this reasonable price for your son or daughter.

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