Charm & Strange by Stephanie Kuehn

Charm & Strange by Stephanie Kuehn

The 2014 Winner of the William C. Morris Award

When you've been kept caged in the dark, it's impossible to see the forest for the trees. It's impossible to see anything, really. Not without bars . . .

In Stephanie Kuehn's brilliant debut Charm & Strange, Andrew Winston Winters is at war with himself.

He's part Win, the lonely teenager exiled to a remote Vermont boarding school in the wake of a family tragedy. The guy who shuts all his classmates out, no matter the cost.

He's part Drew, the angry young boy with violent impulses that control him. The boy who spent a fateful, long-ago summer with his brother and teenage cousins, only to endure a secret so monstrous it led three children to do the unthinkable.

Over the course of one night, while stuck at a party deep in the New England woods, Andrew battles both the pain of his past and the isolation of his present.
Before the sun rises, he'll either surrender his sanity to the wild darkness inside his mind or make peace with the most elemental of truths-that choosing to live can mean so much more than not dying.

Stephanie Kuehn is a young adult novelist who has written five books. Her book Charm & Weird earned the William C. Morris Award from the American Library Association in 2014. Her three subsequent books, Complicit, Delicate Monsters, and The Smaller Evil, earned her the Morris Award for best debut novel, and her three subsequent books, Complicit, Delicate Monsters, and The Smaller Evil, solidified her status as one of adolescent literature's most unique and daring voices. She is a clinical psychology post-doctoral fellow who lives in Northern California. www.stephaniekuehn.com @stephkuehn