What they always tell us
By: Martin Wilson.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9780385735070
Subjects: Social isolation -- Fiction; Brothers -- Fiction; Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Fiction; High schools -- Fiction; Schools -- Fiction; Homosexuality -- Fiction; Family life -- Alabama -- Fiction; Tuscaloosa (Ala.) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: 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.