Astrid Jones copes with her small town's gossip and narrow-mindedness by sending love to the passengers in the airplanes flying overhead. Maybe they'll know what to do with it. Maybe it'll make them happy. Maybe they'll need it. Her mother doesn't want it, her father's always stoned, her perfect sister's too busy trying to fit in and the people in her small town would never allow her to love the person she really wants to - another girl named Dee. There's no one Astrid feels she can talk to about this deep secret or the profound questions that she's trying to answer but little does she know just how much sending her love - and asking the right questions - will affect the passengers' lives, and her own, for the better.
In this unmistakably original portrayal of a girl struggling to break free of society's boxes and definitions, Printz Honor author A.S. King asks readers to question everything - and offers hope to those who will never stop seeking and sharing real love.
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About two years ago, I was going through the biggest reading slump of my life. Every book I picked up was either too heavy or too uninteresting for me to get hooked, but then I was looking through a bookshop and found Ask the Passengers by A.S. King, and all of my bookish prayers had been answered. This is the book that got me out of that massive reading slump, and for good reason!
Astrid Jones feels alone in a world where she is constantly bombarded with people. She finds solace in lying on a bench in her back yard, talking to and asking questions to the people in the airplanes flying above her, because she knows that the people up above won't criticize her when she opens up her heart to them.
Day in, day out, Astrid tells them secrets and asks them questions, the most important and personal thing she shares with them being the fact that she is falling head-over-heels in love with a girl.
Compelling and important in so many ways, Ask the Passengers is a beautiful novel that screams teenage angst, love, and beauty. - Holly (QBD)
Guest, 14/03/2017
