SuitabookSubstance use and escape
Finn deals drugs, wants to inject them and believes indigo may offer a way out of what is broken in his life.
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Kara Storti - Author
This is a dark coming-of-age story about competing pressures: Finn’s wish to help his sister, his drug use and dealing, academic failure, popularity and search for peace. Bird-watching offers a contrasting strand to his increasingly unstable choices.
Finn is a 17-year-old full of paradoxes. He's a drug dealer, but he's scoring money to send his twin sister to Harvard. He's desperate to shoot up even though he's the most popular kid in Dammertown. He's a philosopher and orator who's failing all his classes. The only time he finds peace is when he's bird-watching. Finn's life begins to spiral out of control, until he discovers a miracle drug called indigo. Finn is convinced that the drug is the way out of everything broken in his life. But is it really as magical as it seems?
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is a dark coming-of-age story about competing pressures: Finn’s wish to help his sister, his drug use and dealing, academic failure, popularity and search for peace. Bird-watching offers a contrasting strand to his increasingly unstable choices.
Finn deals drugs, wants to inject them and believes indigo may offer a way out of what is broken in his life.
Finn is popular yet failing, a philosopher and orator yet struggling at school, and seeks money for his twin sister while facing personal desperation.
Before reading, consider whether the combination of injecting drugs, dealing and a life becoming less controlled suits the reader. You may wish to check in afterwards rather than assuming the ending resolves these issues.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: the current material supports only a cautious reading; another book-specific source is still needed.
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