Powerful teenage fiction about how to not give up in life even though you are facing terminal illness. This young adult novel follows 16-year-old cancer patient Hazel. Reluctantly attending a meeting of her cancer support group, she happens to meet Augustus, a boy she soon feels drawn to, even more so when they discover their shared interest for reading: Exploring the missing ending of one of their shared books will take them on a journey abroad, that shows them how being ill is not the only thing that defines them.

Novel · United States · 2012