What they always tell us /
Martin Wilson.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Delacorte Press, c2008.
- 293 p. ; 22 cm.
Sixteen-year-old Alex feels so disconnected from his friends that he starts his junior year at a Tuscaloosa, Alabama, high school by attempting suicide, but soon, a friend of his older brother draws him into cross-country running and a new understanding of himself.
Social isolation--Fiction. Brothers--Fiction. Self-actualization (Psychology)--Fiction. High schools--Fiction. Schools--Fiction. Homosexuality--Fiction. Family life--Alabama--Fiction.