Last year, I reviewed White Lines, a fascinating and gritty tale set in the 1980s NYC club scene. I found it so interesting, in fact, that I interviewed the author, Jennifer Banash, who had based the book on her own frenetic adolescence.
Well, now Jennifer is back with a new novel, Silent Alarm, and I'm super excited to check it out. The world has to wait until March, but you, lucky duck, have the chance to get your grabby little hands on a signed ARC now!
Check out the synopsis below, then leave a comment with your opinion on the book's cover for a chance to win! I'll be choosing five (!) winners on October 24th.
Life changes in a second.
It was just another Tuesday afternoon for Alys Aronson, worried about her upcoming violin audition, wishing for her boyfriend’s arms wrapped around her. Instead, she was hunched over her history notes in the school library, where she couldn’t have known what was in store—that her brother was headed to that same library with a rifle in his hand. Though she’ll never know why, he spares her, but kills fifteen others that day, only ending the bloodshed by turning the gun on himself.
In an instant, her high school becomes one of those places you hear about on the news, and her brother, Luke, is branded a monster. In the aftermath of the shooting, Alys and her parents struggle to make sense of what’s happened and find a way to stay together. All along the way, trying to answer that unbearable question: Why?
Exquisitely written with a powerfully evocative voice, Jennifer Banash’s Silent Alarm is raw, heartbreaking, and ultimately beautiful.