His books have more than 50 million copies in print worldwide two have been adapted into films. Green, whose young adult novels are beloved for their quirky humor and sharp, sensitive teenage protagonists. “Turtles All the Way Down” is an emotionally fraught project for Mr. She often wonders if she is fictional: If she can’t direct her own thoughts, who is really in control? She worries that a cut on her finger, which she presses on uncontrollably, will become infected and kill her. She’s certain that she’s contracted an intestinal bacteria that can be fatal. Aza has normal teenage preoccupations, and struggles to navigate the rites of adolescence: dating, fretting about college, calming her overbearing mother, appeasing her demanding best friend.īut she is also frequently overcome by extreme dread. Its narrator, Aza Holmes, is a 16-year-old girl in Indianapolis who wrestles with anxiety and obsessive thought spirals. “Turtles All the Way Down,” published on Tuesday, Oct. “Coming out of that, it was difficult to write about anything else,” he said.
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