I Crawl Through It, by A. S. King
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I Crawl Through It, by A. S. King
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Four teenagers are on the verge of exploding. The anxieties they face at every turn have nearly pushed them to the point of surrender: senseless high-stakes testing, the lingering damage of past trauma, the buried grief, and guilt of tragic loss. They are desperate to cope, but no one is listening.
So they will lie. They will split in two. They will turn inside out. They will even build an invisible helicopter to fly themselves far away...but nothing releases the pressure. Because, as they discover, the only way to truly escape their world is to fly right into it.
The genius of acclaimed author A. S. King reaches new heights in this groundbreaking work of surrealist fiction; it will mesmerize listeners with its deeply affecting exploration of how we crawl through traumatic experience - and find the way out.
I Crawl Through It, by A. S. King- Amazon Sales Rank: #70301 in Audible
- Published on: 2015-10-01
- Format: Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Running time: 373 minutes
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful. A.S. King's most ambitious novel yet By Liviania From her first novel, THE DUST OF 100 DOGS, A.S. King has been interested in realistic issues but tackled them with fantastic flourishes. With each of her novels, her popularity and critical acclaim have risen. I love that she's taken the opportunity not to do the same thing repeatedly, but to push her work further and further into the edges. I CRAWL THROUGH IT leaps into full surrealism.The majority of the book is told through the point of view of Stanzi. (Her name isn't Stanzi.) She is split into two and finds refuge in her love of biology, always wearing a lab coat and compulsively dissecting frogs. Some is told by China, who swallowed herself. Some is told by Lansdowne Cruise, whose hair grows when she lies. (She has very long hair.) Some is told by Patricia, who is trapped in a place with no departures. Their friend Gustav tells none of it, but he is central to the story - as is the helicopter he is building, which Stanzi can only see on Tuesdays.It's a convoluted story, and on top of the surrealism, all of the narrators are unreliable. Some truths are easy to find. We all know what Irenic Brown did to China. The details can be harder to determine, and much is left to the reader's interpretation. King has a lot to say. She sometimes hammers her point in, but she's often subtle. (I do love the touch that despite there being prominent male characters, there are no male characters. This is a book where women's voices have primacy.)Much is made in the blurb of I CRAWL THROUGH IT, as well as the design of the book itself, about the testing angle. Yes, there is satire of the modern school curriculum culture. In many ways I wouldn't pick that out as the central issue of the novel. I think it has far more to say about how girls' voices are devalued, but maybe that's just me.I CRAWL THROUGH IT is King's least accessible novel. I think it accomplishes what King said out to do with it, and that her fans will have a lot of fun tangling through it. It is definitely not my favorite King novel. Like GLORY O'BRIEN'S HISTORY OF THE FUTURE, sometimes the polemics take over the story. However, it is a rich read and a bold artistic statement.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. With its unique narrative structure and surreal aspects...this book embodies the disruption it stands for. By Teen Reads A prodigy who builds an invisible helicopter. A poet who swallows herself whole. A nudist who builds gorgeous sculptures in the shape of letters. A biologist who splits herself in two. These are just a few of the characters who bring Printz Honor author A.S. King’s new surreal novel, I CRAWL THROUGH IT, to life.Told from five different points of view, I CRAWL THROUGH IT is a story of survival, of coping with the anxieties of growing up in 21st century America. As test week is approaching, bomb threats come pouring in. Every day, students are forced to move outside, to evacuate, to reconcile their identities with the way they are seen by each other --- as a collection of Scantron answers, Facebook photos, false stories or career paths. Stanzi, China, Gustav and Lansdale are all bright, are all bursting at the seams, are all internalizing their anxieties (terribly) in their own way. They shield the most vulnerable parts of themselves from the rest of the world.The nudist who lives down the street gives them letters in exchange for kisses and gives Gustav the blueprints for a helicopter that will take Stanzi and him to a place where they will feel at peace. When they go missing, the reporters come, but nobody will answer their questions. China steals away to New York to see a boyfriend she met online. Lansdale tries to find someone, anyone, who can hold a conversation with her.This could have easily been a more typical young adult novel. With her obsessions with biology and M*A*S*H, Stanzi, whose perspective we see the most, is more than memorable enough to carry a story on her own. Factor in the vibrant and dynamic supporting cast and complex character arcs and this could have been great. Great, yes, but also just another YA novel.With its unique narrative structure and surreal aspects, however, this book embodies the disruption it stands for. There are many eloquent ways to discuss the issues these characters deal with (sexual assault, death, depression and anxiety). However, expressing them through the surreal gives them a resonance that can’t be captured in the mundane. Is there a more visceral way to represent anxiety than literally swallowing yourself whole?If you’re the type of reader who needs to understand the meaning of every symbol and theme, this is not a book for you. If you’re not afraid to be a bit confused, to understand a book without having the words to explain why or even what you understand, you need this book in your life.Reviewed by Matthew Mastricova
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. A surreal, heartfelt, and magical story about the pain of reality and surviving it. By Karissa Eckert I have pretty much loved all the books I have read by AS King. To date I have read The Dust of 100 Dogs, Reality Boy, and Everybody Sees the Ants and loved them all. I didn’t like this book quite as much as those ones, but it was still a very well done story that is a bit mind-bending and surreal.This story follows four incredibly talented teenagers as they cope with past tragedy in different ways. The first character (and main one) is Stanzi; Stanzi believes she is two people in one body and they struggle against each other. The second is her neighbor, and best friend Gustav, who spends most of his time building an invisible helicopter. The third is China, one of Stanzi’s friends, who has swallowed herself and is now an inside out girl. The last is Lansdale, one of China’s other friends, who is a habitual liar and can’t ever seem to tell the truth. This book is about their struggle dealing with past trauma and trying to live in the real world.Now I won’t talk about the trauma all our characters have endured, it is different for each character and spans different degrees of trauma. Discovering what happened to these characters to lead them to be the way they are is part of the journey. And that is really what this story is, a magical and surreal journey through the reality these characters make for themselves.Overhanging the whole story is the constant bomb threats that their school receives. These bomb threats are so common that the students and staff have come to see them as the norm. Yet, still this threat of violence and death constantly hangs over their everyday lives.There are a bevy of strange side characters in here. My favorite (and one of the strangest) was the naked bush man, who hides in the bush naked and gives out elaborate letters (like “a”, “q”, etc) to those who pass. Personally I thought he was a bit freaky, but then as the story progresses you get to know him and find out that even he has a method to his madness.As mentioned above the story is surreal and ambiguous. The reader is left with a number of questions...is Stanzi really two people, is China really literally inside out, and does Gustav really have an invisible helicopter, or is all this just an analogy? The whole thing is a bit of a mind trip. Yet it is all the more entertaining because the answer to all those questions is yes. If you believe Gustav has an invisible helicopter then he does, why not? Or you could say that this is an analogy for a long personal journey. Is China really inside out? Sure she could be, anything is possible...or could she just feel exposed to the world around her because of what she’s been through.In a way this is a coming of age story for all of these characters, a commentary on society today, a heartbreaking story about the pain of life and how to cope, and a magical story about riding in an invisible helicopter...really it’s all those things and very well done. The basic message is this, we make our own realities and crawl through them until we finally find the one we want to live in.I should mention I would recommend for older YA. There are some violent things in here and swearing; so that’s a heads up for those concerned about that.Overall an incredibly well done story about pain and reality and surviving it. The story is heartfelt, surreal, a bit ambiguous, and magical. I think this is another great book by AS King and I would highly recommend to those who don’t mind their contemporary fiction having a bit of crazy ambiguity to it. Loved this book and can’t wait to read some of her others.
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