The Art of Saving the World

(Hardback)

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When Hazel Stanczak was born, an interdimensional rift opened up near her familys home. Early on, her parents realized that if she went too far from home, the rift would become volatile and drop things from other dimensions onto their front lawn. So Hazel has never left her small Pennsylvania town, and the government agents that have studied her and the rift her whole life want to make sure she stays put. Thats mostly fine with Hazel, who struggles with anxiety. But on her sixteenth birthday, the rift starts acting up even when shes still nearby, causing chaos and panic. In the confusion, Hazel comes facetoface with a surprise: a second Hazel. Then another. And another. And another. Each one of the Hazels is slightly different, but all obviously and definitively her. Now, Hazel has to step outside her comfort zone and into the world to learn how to stop the riftbut can five versions of one sixteenyearold girl really save the world

Reviews

". . .The story offers a provocative, genre-bending look at exploring identity."--Publishers Weekly
"Duyvis capably balances a zippy sci-fi plot that barrels along at a breathless pace with an intriguing look at how one girl in five different worlds could be both the same and different"--Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
"Duyvis' rich, layered character development--grounded in Hazel's raw, first-person perspective--offers an authentic exploration of questioning sexuality and asexuality, what makes us who we are, and what our responsibilities are to ourselves and to others."--Booklist
"The representation of mental health issues is at times so painfully accurate that the novel becomes difficult to read but at the same time, impossible to put down." --Kirkus Review
"This is a fast-paced adventure story with the perfect mix of fantasy and coming-of-age realistic fiction."--School Library Journal

Author Bio

Corinne Duyvis is a novelist, short story writer, and a founder of the website Disability in Kidlit. Shes a graduate of the Clarion West Writers Workshop. Her first novel, Otherbound, received four starred reviews, and her followup novel, On the Edge of Gone, received three starred reviews. She lives in Amsterdam.