num_pages: 260
description: What happens when you put a suicidal eighteen-year-old philosophy student his ex-girlfriend his best friend and his newborn baby in a truck and send them to Grandma's house? This debut novel by Emil Ostrovski will appeal to fans of John Green Chris Crutcher and Jay Asher.On the morning of his eighteenth birthday philosophy student and high school senior Jack Polovsky is somewhat seriously thinking of suicide when his cell phone rings. Jack's ex-girlfriend Jess has given birth and Jack is the father. Jack hasn't spoken with Jess in about nine monthsand she wants him to see the baby before he is adopted. The new teenage father kidnaps the baby names him Socrates stocks up on baby supplies at Wal-Mart and hits the road with his best friend Tommy and the ex-girlfriend. As they head to Grandma's house (eluding the police at every turn) Jack tells baby Socrates about Homer Troy Aristotle the real Socrates and the Greek mythsbecause all stories spring from those stories really. Even this one. Funny heart-wrenching and wholly original this debut novel by Emil Ostrovski explores the nature of family love friendship fate fatherhood and myth.
language: English
title: The Paradox of Vertical Flight
publisher: Greenwillow Books