It has been nearly six years since Green topped the charts with his sharp, funny, moving story of the romance between two teenagers with cancer, The Fault in Our Stars. There’s also Daisy’s burgeoning fame as a Star Wars fan fiction writer, Pickett’s decision to leave his fortune to his pet tuatara (a kind of large reptile) and, of course, romance, friendship and high school. While the novel is filtered through Aza’s perspective, OCD is only one theme. Daisy convinces Aza that they’ll be able to find Pickett and claim the reward, and the wannabe detectives hop into Aza’s old canoe and paddle down the river to the Pickett mansion. Aza, it turns out, used to know his son Davis because they’d “gone to Sad Camp together … this place down in Brown County for kids with dead parents”. The novel opens as the girls hear on the radio about the $100,000 reward which has been offered for a fugitive billionaire, Russell Pickett. For a long time it was hard “to talk directly about it, and I felt a lot of embarrassment” part of writing it into his fiction was a desire “to find some kind of form or expression that would shake it out from within me and allow me to look at it”.Īza – or Holmesy, as she is known to her best friend, Daisy – is Green’s narrator. Green has “had this obsessive thinking problem” since childhood.
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