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An unforgettable ensemble of characters is unleashed into a world known for its cruelty - the American high school - in this fascinating debut book for listeners of Celeste Ng's Everything I Never Informed You and Curtis Sittenfeld's Prep. The prosperous enclaves north of SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA are not the paradise they seem to be, and nobody knows this better than the students of an area high school. Despite being raised with all the current opportunities money can buy, these prone kids are navigating a treacherous adolescence where every action, every rumor, every sense, is possibly postable, shareable, viral. Lindsey Lee Johnson's kaleidoscopic narrative exposes at every move the real individuals beneath the high school stereotypes. Abigail Cress is ticking off of the bins toward the Ivy Group when she makes the first impulsive decision of her life: getting into an inappropriate romantic relationship with a educator. Dave Chu, who understands himself at heart to be a typical B student, takes desperate options to surpass his parents' crushing prospects. Emma Fleed, a gifted dancer, balances demanding rehearsals with outdoors weekends. Damon Flintov results from a stint at rehabilitation looking to establish that he's not an irredeemable screw-up. And Calista Broderick, once area of the popular crowd, chooses, for reasons of her own, to become a hippie outcast. Into this complicated web, an idealistic young English teacher will come from a poorer, scruffier part of California. Molly Nicoll aims to connect with her students - without understanding the middle university tragedy that played out online and has continuing to reverberate in different ways for all of them. Written with the uncommon talent capable of turning teenage dilemma into urgent, mature fiction, The Most Dangerous Place on Earth makes brilliant a modern adolescence resided in the gleam of the digital but abundant with sorrow, passion, and humanity.
