The Alex Crow

“Andrew Smith is the Kurt Vonnegut of YA... [Smith’s novels] are the freshest, richest, and weirdest books to hit the YA world in years.” — Entertainment Weekly

Skillfully blending multiple story strands that transcend time and place, award-winning  Grasshopper Jungle  author Andrew Smith chronicles the story of Ariel, a refugee who is the sole survivor of an attack on his small village. Now living with an adoptive family in Sunday, West Virginia, Ariel's story is juxtaposed against those of a schizophrenic bomber and the diaries of a failed arctic expedition from the late nineteenth century... and a depressed, bionic reincarnated crow.