Crash Into Me

By Albert Borris

Book Overview

Owen, Frank, Audrey, and Jin-Ae have one thing in common: they all want to die. When they meet online after each attempts suicide and fails, the four teens make a deadly pact: they will escape together on a summer road trip to visit the sites of celebrity suicides...and at their final destination, they will all end their lives. As they drive cross-country, bonding over their dark impulses, sharing their deepest secrets and desires, living it up, hooking up, and becoming true friends, each must decide whether life is worth living--or if there's no turning back.

"Crash Into Me puts readers in the driver's seat with four teens teetering on the edge of suicide. But will their cross country odyssey push them all the way over? Only the final page turn will tell, in Albert Borris's finely-crafted tale of friendship forged from a desperate need of connection. An exceptional first novel." --Ellen Hopkins, bestselling author of Crank

"Take a bathroom break and be sure you have a few free hours because from the moment you open this book you're going to be on the ultimate heartbreaking, poignant road trip to a place you never thought you'd go." --Todd Strasser, bestselling author of Give a Boy a Gun

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1416998276
• ISBN13: 9781416998273
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 14 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 9 to 12

Customer Reviews

Gripping and inspiring

The plot is simple: four teenagers take a roadtrip with a planned group suicide at the end. The characters are not simple. They are deep, and real, and beautiful, and I cried so hard at certain points of the story that I had to close the book momentarily. This is a gem of a story, one I'd want to give to anyone in an existential crisis.

Better than you think this can be

Be reassured. This is a book full of hope and real information at the same time. The story line doesn't waver and the voices of the characters are authentic. Although targeted at the young adult audience, I recommend it to anyone curious or moved by the topic. No gloification. No unnecessary violence. You will be moved and this book may actually help you and yours. A great read even if you are just curious. IT SHOULD BE IN EVERY HIGH SCHOOL MEDIA CENTER. Head in the sand avoidance does not help anyone and this book is as PC as is possible given the subject.

best first novel!!

Crash into me grabbed me from the first page. I loved the style in which it was written, with dialogue back and forth among the young characters. I found the story believable, and very touching. I,honestly, did not know how it would turn out until the last few pages! I have 3 teenagers, and they are now taking turns reading it!

A gotta read novel

This is a book not only for teenagers, but for their parents as well. As a high school teacher and parent of teenagers I just wanted to share this with everyone I knew. Not only is this book a quick read, it really took me on the trip with the kids in the book. Albert Borris has not only captured these teenagers but he captures the reader in their story as well. You won't put it down and you won't be sorry.

Amazing book

I read this book because I wanted to see if I should add it to my high school library. I've been suicidal most of my life, so I wanted to see if it the author got it right, and he did. The writing is beautiful (and unlike Hunger Games, it has only *one* typo, so it's even copy-edited well). I frequently skip to the end of a book to find out what happens, but I didn't feel compelled to do that here. Read it, review it--I'm sure many of you are more eloquent than I am. I'm grateful to have a young adult novel that I can recommend to students who either don't understand why someone would be suicidal or are suicidal themselves.