num_pages: 368
description: “Stan,” I said, and I said it kind of loud so of course he had to look up. “Tomorrow 8:37. The red van with the out-of-state plates? You go head to head. You lose. You die.” After freakishly foretelling the death of a friend, Luke Hunter becomes big news in Stokum, his rank little pinprick of a hometown. Terrified, but pretending not to be, Luke holds everyone—the local media, his buddy Fang, the Polish widow next door—at arm’s length as he lurches through a personal minefield studded with previously unconsidered existential ponderings, Christian fundamentalists, a missing teen’s frantic mother, and a dream girl who isn’t his. Hormonal and funny, exhilarating and wise, Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet slyly explores the need to belong, the isolation of youth, and the powerful brew of fear and truth, music and noise, that plays inside us all.
language: English
title: Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet
titlecomplete: Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet
genres: Dark, Fiction, Young Adult Contemporary, Fantasy, Young Adult, Contemporary, Teen, Adult Fiction, Canada, Magical Realism
ratings_count: 603
awards: awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Sunburst Award
category: Young Adult Work
publisher: Viking