SuitabookA Million Tiny Missiles All At Once
Lucas Maxwell
- Reading
- Read alongside the reader if desired, pausing after major family changes or frightening developments. Talk about what Elias can control, and whether the humour makes difficult moments easier or more complicated.
- Themes
- Family responsibility and repair: Elias tries to bring his family back together while Bo becomes distant and his parents face serious strain. The book appears to examine the loving impulse to repair a family while questioning whether one young person can solve adult or sibling problems.
- Addiction and danger: Bo is implied to be involved in a drug scene, owes money to dangerous people and is in a rehabilitation treatment centre. The book’s stance on this remains unclear.
- Growing up neurodivergent: Elias’s perspective is associated with racing thoughts, fears and growing up neurodivergent; the author connects the character with his own experiences. The book’s stance on this remains unclear.
- Worth knowing
- Consider whether the references to addiction, dangerous people, family separation, neurodivergence and intense worry are subjects the reader would prefer to approach with a supportive adult nearby.