Miss Entropia and the Adam Bomb
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
No other obsession strikes as hard as the love that hits a teenaged boy — especially if he’s the sort of kid who is no saner than he wants to be. From the moment Adam Webb sees Francine Haggard—in the van that is supposed to return them to the Institute Loiseaux—the two young mental patients are inextricably connected. Adam will never let this girl go.
From hiding her in his bedroom to spiriting her away to Minnesota’s north woods, “Miss Entropia” becomes the focus of Adam’s every thought and of everything he does. He believes her to be a goddess, his own goddess.
But the pyromaniacal Miss Entropia will be neither worshiped nor owned. And so Adam’s possessiveness is destined to push her to the breaking point.
Theirs is an incendiary love story, an unbalanced Romeo and Juliet, that spins and arcs its way strangely toward tragedy.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Rabasa's clever mix of the absurd and the tragic, 13-year-old Adam Webber meets the woman of his dreams in 15-year-old Francine "Miss Entropia" (Pia for short) Haggard as the two are being driven to a mental institution for rich kids. Adam immediately falls in love, hijacks the van, and whisks himself and Pia away to the parking lot of a nearby mall, where the night they spend together feeds Adam's dreams for the next four years after he's caught and re-institutionalized despite the fact that his antics lead to his estrangement from Pia. When, after graduating from the institution, Adam is helping his mother distribute socks to the homeless, he runs into Pia, who is now suspected of arson and is living in an abandoned warehouse. His passion burning hotter than ever, Adam persuades her to hide out from the cops at his parents' house, but the half-baked idea leads to another felony spree and some devastating consequences. Despite the plot's inherent darkness, Rabasa (The Wonder Singer) maintains a playful cleverness throughout, fueled by piquant dialogue and sharply etched characters who maintain their humanity in the face of the occasional credulity-straining scenario. Well-played, keenly felt.
