Author Blythe Woolston’s Debut YA Novel The Freak Observer Follows One Girl Out of Orbit
Business Wire, July 27, 2010
MINNEAPOLIS -- Where does one person belong in the cosmos? How can a teenage girl find
reason and order when her universe is spinning out of control? Life for
Loa is like an unruly science experimentfixed variables are changing,
volatile toxins are mixing, and spontaneous combustion seems imminent.
Written by Blythe Woolston and published by Carolrhoda Lab, a new line
of distinctive fiction for young adults from Carolrhoda Books, The
Freak Observer provides a gritty and realistic account of Loas
life as a girl on the brink.
A struggling high school upperclassman, Loa is haunted by grief over her
sisters death. Her world is rocked once again when, a year later, she
witnesses the death of her friend, Esther. As Loa attempts to cope, she
turns away from the busy, rustic, functioning family life she has known
and turns to alcohol and aimlessness. She also turns to Corey, a
charismatic but troubled debate-teamer who convinces her to become his
partner and, perhaps, his friend.
But the friendship the two form is anything but normal
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