num_pages: 532
description: On April 21 2008 Steven Crash Crashinsky saved more than a thousand people when he stopped his classmate David Burnett from taking their high school hostage armed with assault weapons and high-powered explosives. You likely already know what came after for Crash: the nationwide notoriety the college recruitment and of course the book deal. What you might not know is what came before: a story of two teens whose lives have been inextricably linked since grade school who were destined some say to meet that day in the teachers' lounge of Meadows High. And what you definitely don't know are the words that Burn whispered to Crash right as the siege was ending a secret that Crash has never revealed.Until now.Michael Hassan's shattering novel is a tale of first love and first hate the story of two high school seniors and the morning that changed their lives forever. It's a portrait of the modern American teenage male in all his brash disillusioned oversexed schizophrenic drunk nihilistic hopeful ADHD-diagnosed glory. And it's a powerful meditation on how normal it is to be screwed up and how screwed up it is to be normal.
language: English
title: Crash and Burn
publisher: Balzer + Bray