Steve York has to write a 100-page essay about his life in order to pass his English course and graduate from high school. What seems like a straightforward writing assignment, however, becomes an opportunity for Steve to reflect on his downward spiral from gifted, straight-A student to apathetic drug user. He attempts to figure out where it all went so wrong. He focuses mainly on his sophomore and junior year of high school, when he became involved with a group of non-conformists and formed the Grace Order of Dadaists (GOD) club. Also during that time, Steve met his first love and experienced the worst kind of heartbreak--"his heart had been run through frappe, puree, and liquefy in the love blender" by his ex-girlfriend, Wanda "Dub" Varner. He also discovered that he really couldn't relate to his father, the Famous Astronaut. Readers of all ages will enjoy Steve's wild ride of self-enlightenment as author, Rob Thomas, tells a wonderful, engrossing story with a mix of clever humor about a teenage outsider.
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