The Rest Of Us Just Live Here

Hardcover

Published July 21, 2001 by Walker Books Ltd, imusti.

ISBN:
978-1-4063-3116-5
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What happens to you when you get older? Do you just forget everything from before you turned eighteen? Do you make yourself forget?

Everyone grows up, everyone faces challenges, and how you carry that going forward is what matters. A straight forward principle disguised in a story that features strange phenomenons and a school that needs to be rebuilt once a decade.

Kindness is the most important thing of all. Pity is an insult. Kindness is a miracle.

Patrick Ness likes to deliver a gut punch to your emotions but he hides that surprise within a supernatural or unusual method. The Rest of Us Just Live Here follows the same pattern but I may be a bit older than the target audience of that message.

If it wasn't for the Indie kids or deity nature of some characters this would have been a straight forward YA story about conflicts, growing …

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