Snowflake, AZ, Marcus Sedgwick
Snowflake, AZ, Marcus Sedgwick
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Snowflake, AZ

Author: Marcus Sedgwick

Narrator: M.W. Cartozian Wilson

Unabridged: 7 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 09/17/2019


Synopsis

From Printz medalist Marcus Sedgwick, a gripping novel about health?our own and our planet's?and the stigma of illness. Ash boards a Greyhound bus heading to the place where Bly was last seen: Snowflake, Arizona. Six thousand feet up in the wide red desert, Ash meets Mona, her dog, her goat, and her neighbors, and finds stepbrother Bly, too. In their ramshackle homes, the walls lined with tinfoil, almost all the residents of Snowflake are sick. But this isn't any ordinary sickness: the chemicals and technologies of modern life are poisoning them. They call themselves canaries, living warning signs that humans have pushed the environment too far, except no one seems to be taking their warnings seriously. The healthy "normies" of Snowflake have written them off as a bunch of eccentrics, and when Ash too falls ill, the doctor's response is "It's all in your mind." Snowflake, AZ contemplates illness and health?both our own and our planet's. As Ash lives through a cycle of illness and recovery and loss, the world beyond is succumbing to its own affliction: a breakdown of civilization only distantly perceived by Ash and the isolated residents of Snowflake, from which there may or may not be a chance for recovery. This provocative novel by one of our most admired storytellers explores the resilience of love and community in the face of crisis.

About Marcus Sedgwick

Marcus Sedgwick used to work in children's publishing and before that he was a bookseller. He now happily writes full-time. His books have been shortlisted for many awards, including The GUARDIAN CHILDREN'S FICTION AWARD, the BLUE PETER BOOK AWARD, the CARNEGIE MEDAL and the EDGAR ALLAN POE AWARD. Marcus lives in Cambridge and has a teenage daughter, Alice.Find his website at www.marcussedgwick.com and follow him on Twitter @marcussedgwick


Reviews

Goodreads review by Shannon on October 14, 2019

You can find the full review and all the fancy and/or randomness that accompanies it at It Starts at Midnight Marcus Sedgwick sure writes some unique stuff. I won't pretend that this was my favorite of his per se, but it definitely had some thought provoking moments. In the book, Ash sets out to fin......more

Goodreads review by Jo on August 31, 2019

I don’t think I could sum up in a nutshell what this book is all about any better than the synopsis that came with the book from the publisher: ‘A timely, contemporary novel challenging ideas around health – our own and our planet's – and the stigma that persists around illness’, so I am not going t......more

Goodreads review by Isla on August 10, 2019

The premise of this book is based on a real life event that happened to the author, Marcus Sedgwick. After returning from a trip to Asia he started getting sick. Doctors could not give him a reason for this illness, and were inclined to suggest that it was all in his head. On the back of this diagno......more

Goodreads review by Jayne on August 27, 2020

I found this book slow moving and strange nearly giving up on it. The characters were not engaging and it dragged on with a lot of odd philosophical writing. It was a shame because the ideas were interesting; it is a warning about how modern life and products are poisoning people and the environment......more

Goodreads review by Becky on February 09, 2020

It felt like this book was meant to be sympathetic to people who suffer from undiagnosed illnesses, but at the same time it made all of the people seem foolish. Ash is just thrown into this environment and doesn't really give us an understanding of what is good or bad for people and which people and......more