Crash and Burn
Michael Hassan
Fiction H275c
On April 21, 2008, Steven
"Crash" Crashinsky saved more than a thousand people when he stopped his
classmate David Burnett from taking their high school hostage armed
with assault weapons and high-powered explosives. You likely already
know what came after for Crash: the nationwide notoriety, the college
recruitment, and, of course, the book deal. What you might not know is
what came before: a story of two teens whose lives have been
inextricably linked since grade school, who were destined, some say, to
meet that day in the teachers' lounge of Meadows High. And what you
definitely don't know are the words that Burn whispered to Crash right
as the siege was ending, a secret that Crash has never revealed.
Until now.
Michael
Hassan's shattering novel is a tale of first love and first hate, the
story of two high school seniors and the morning that changed their
lives forever. It's a portrait of the modern American teenage male, in
all his brash, disillusioned, oversexed, schizophrenic, drunk,
nihilistic, hopeful, ADHD-diagnosed glory. And it's a powerful
meditation on how normal it is to be screwed up, and how screwed up it
is to be normal
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