![]() ![]() But Green’s latest book, “Turtles All the Way Down,” is somehow far darker, not so much because of the subject matter - though that’s dark too - but because of how he chooses to write about it. There are few subjects more upsetting than young people with cancer. “ The Fault in Our Stars,” which was simultaneously an implacable tragedy and a screwball comedy about two teenage cancer patients, was of a piece with everything Green has ever done. ![]() People die and disappear a lot in his books, and his adolescent characters spend a lot of time channeling their inner philosophers, trying to make sense of love and suffering. Death, parting, existential questions about what it all means - they’re never far from Green’s mind. (Among the festive topics they discuss: geography, astronomy, the hermeneutics of Star Wars.) As always, one of the girls is a tornado of enthusiasm and high drama, prone to announcements like, “I have a crisis,” when really it’s a fun crisis she’s having.Īnd there’s loss. (Green does Aaron Sorkin better than Aaron Sorkin does Aaron Sorkin.) They’re irrepressible nerds. It features a small cast of tenderhearted, manically articulate teenagers. ![]() ![]() John Green has written a new young adult novel, his first since “The Fault in Our Stars” (2012), and in some ways it is very much a John Green production. ![]()
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