Somebody Up There Hates You: A Novel - Hardcover

Seamon, Hollis

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9781616202606: Somebody Up There Hates You: A Novel

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ISBN 10: 1616202602 ISBN 13: 9781616202606

Publisher: Algonquin Young Readers, 2013

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Chemo, radiation, a zillion surgeries, watching my mom age twenty years in twenty months: if that’s part of the Big Dude’s plan, then it’s pretty obvious, isn’t it? Somebody up there hates you.

SUTHY has landed me here in this hospice, where we―that’s me and Sylvie―are the only people under thirty in the whole place, sweartogod. But I’m not dead yet. I still need to keep things interesting. Sylvie, too. I mean, we’re kids, hospice hostages or not. We freak out visitors; I get my uncle to sneak me out for one insane Halloween night. Stuff like that. And Sylvie wants to make things even more interesting. That girl’s got big plans.

Only Sylvie’s father is so nuclear-blasted by what’s happened to his little girl, he glows orange, I swear. That’s one scary man, and he’s not real fond of me. So we got a major family feud going on, right here in hospice. DO NOT CROSS line running down the middle of the hall. It’s crazy.

In the middle of all of this, really, there’s just me and Sylvie, a guy and a girl. And we want to live, in our way, by our own rules, for whatever time we’ve got. We will pack in some living before we go. Trust me. So let’s get to it.

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"WISE, WICKED, AND HILARIOUS." *

Smart-mouthed and funny, sometimes raunchy, Richard Casey is in most ways a typical seventeen-year-old boy. Except Richie has cancer, and he&s spending his final days in a hospice unit. In this place where people go to die, Richie has plans to make the most of the life he has left. Sylvie, the only other teenager in hospice, has a few plans of her own for Richie. What begins as camaraderie quickly blossoms into real love, and this star-crossed pair is determined to live on their own terms, in whatever time remains.

"Richie, aka The Incredible Dying Boy, is obnoxious, charming, selfish, generous, and always funny. I&d follow him anywhere." -*Bennett Madison, author ofSeptember Girls

"I readSomebody Up There Hates Youin one great rush. This novel is funny, harrowing, and wildly profane. It had me crying with laughter on one page and then just plain crying on another." -Will Schwalbe, author ofThe End of Your Life Book Club

"Even in hospice, a lot can happen in a short time . . . Being near death doesn&t mean abandoning hope for the life that remains." -Publishers Weekly,starred review

"A fresh, inspiring story." -Kirkus Reviews,starred review

About the Author:

Hollis Seamon is a recipient of a fiction fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She is a professor of English at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York, and also teaches in the MFA creative writing program at Fairfield University in Fairfield, Connecticut. This is her first novel for young adults.

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