What They Always Tell Us
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.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 11
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 810
subjects: social isolation [X], brothers, self-actualization (psychology), high schools, schools, tuscaloosa (ala.), family, loneliness, self-realization, homosexuality [X], family life, school stories, families [X]