One Death, Nine Stories
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How could one teenage boy's life elicit other kids' first experiences -- even after he dies?. Kev's the first kid their age to die. And now, even though he's dead, he's not really gone. Even now his choices are touching the people he left behind. Ellen Hopkins reveals what two altar boys (and one altar girl) might get up to at the cemetery. Rita Williams-Garcia follows one aimless teen as he finds a new life in his new job -- at the mortuary. Will Weaver turns a lens on Kevin's sister as she collects his surprising effects -- and makes good use of them. Here, in nine stories, we meet people who didn't know Kevin, friends from his childhood, his ex-girlfriend, his best friend, all dealing with the fallout of his death. Being a teenager is a time for all kinds of firsts -- first jobs, first loves, first good-byes, firsts that break your heart and awaken your soul. It's an initiation of sorts, and it can be brutal. But on the other side of it is the rest of your life.
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This was like one of those campfire stories where someone starts the story off and then the next person continues and on to the next person and the next person and the next until you have a whole story. Nine different authors penned a different short story all somehow connected to one dead boy.
There was no conclusion, and very few details. If you want to know what happened to Kevin Nicholas, you won't find much beyond his cause of death and that kind of bothered me. I was hoping one of the stories was told from his point of view. Instead we're treated to only glimpses of a troubled, charming, dangerous boy through the eyes of the people who loved, idolized and feared him.
Despite the different authors the story did flow together quite seamlessly. There were one or two where I felt the writing was very different from the previous author, but then I would get lost in the story and it didn't matter so much anymore. This was a quick, interesting read. A good experiment.
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