Her doctor has advised doubling her meds, but the true antidote is a strong dose of luh-uv. That adage is true for Hazel, who is likely to die before she can legally buy a beer. She has fully earned the attitude held by many teens: that they’re on a desperate adventure adults simply can’t understand. ![]() She greets anyone in authority - her parents, her doctors, the guy who runs the group-therapy session at a local church - with an eyebrow raised in cynical judgment. Having lived with cancer for half of her 16 years, Hazel has developed an emotional auto-immune system: mockery. ![]() ![]() (READ: Lev Grossman on John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars)Īn adolescent take on the old film weepie Love Story (“What can you say about a twenty-five year old girl who died?”), Green’s book managed to be both bitingly sarcastic and unashamedly uplifting.
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