Told in three voices and punctuated by news articles chronicling the familyโs story, this โgritty, grippingโ (Publishers Weekly) conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Crank novel-in-verse trilogy is a testament to the harsh reality that addiction is never just one personโs problem.
Hunter, Autumn, and Summerโthree of Kristina Snowโs five childrenโlive in different homes with different guardians and last names. They share only a predisposition for addiction and a host of troubled feelings toward the mother who barely knows them, a mother who has been riding with the monster, crank, for twenty years.
Hunter is nineteen and angry, getting by in college with a job at a radio station, a girlfriend he loves in the only way he knows how, and the occasional party. Heโs struggling to understand why his mother left him, when he unexpectedly meets his rapist father, and things get even more complicated.
Autumn lives with her single aunt and alcoholic grandfather. When her aunt gets married, and the only family sheโs ever known crumbles, Autumnโs compulsive habits lead her to drink. And the more bad decisions she makes, the more it becomes apparent thereโs more of Kristina in Autumn than sheโd like to believe.
Summer doesnโt know about Hunter, Autumn, or their two younger brothers, Donald and David. To her, family is only abuse at the hands of her fatherโs girlfriends and a slew of foster parents. Doubt and loneliness overwhelm her, and she, too, teeters on the edge of her motherโs notorious legacy.
As each sibling searches for real love and true family, they find themselves pulled toward the one person who links them togetherโKristina, Bree, mother, addict. But it is in each other, and in themselves, that they find the trust, the courage, and the hope to break the cycle.
Told in three voices and punctuated by news articles chronicling the familyโs story, this โgritty, grippingโ (Publishers Weekly) conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Crank novel-in-verse trilogy is a testament to the harsh reality that addiction is never just one personโs problem.
Hunter...