The Fault in Our Stars
2010
- young adult fiction
- cancer—fiction
- terminally ill—fiction
- love—fiction
- cancer
- fiction
- terminally ill
- love
- children's fiction
- cancer, fiction
The story
Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten. ([source][1]) [1]: http://www.johngreenbooks.com/the-fault-in-our-stars
What it’s like
Wry, conversational first-person prose that moves quickly, full of sharp dialogue and self-deprecating asides, with a sad undertow that rarely lets the tone sink for long. The sensory world is domestic and quiet: fluorescent hospital corridors, a church basement where folding chairs circle a coffee urn, the hum of an oxygen tank, a suburban Midwestern bedroom, and later, travel to a European city with canals and museum rooms. A tender first romance unfolds between two teenagers with terminal cancer, growing from banter into something earnest and vulnerable, with the emotional register shifting between giddy, funny, and quietly devastating. Violence is absent, and the physical toll of illness is described plainly rather than graphically. Sexual content is brief and non-explicit, and there is frequent profanity. Grief and mortality run through the whole book, so it lands as tender and heartbreaking rather than gentle. It suits readers who want a bittersweet, emotionally direct story about love under dire circumstances, especially on a long afternoon or a sleepless night when a good cry feels welcome.
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