Crash and Burn - Softcover

"Michael Hassan has written a darkly funny story about a school shooting. I didn't know it was possible but I knew it was brave. Thankfully, he pulls it off."--Ned Vizzini, author of It's Kind of a Funny Story and The Other Normals

"Sprawling, messy, vulgar, sexy, irreverent, violent, bighearted, harrowing. These are just a few of the many adjectives about to be hurled in the direction of this roaring freight train of a debut... Gutsily conceived, written, and edited, this is, quite simply, a great American novel."--Booklist (starred review)

"[Crash and Burn] is a must-read for teens and adults alike who want to understand the lack of empathy that permeates contemporary culture; it offers no answers, but the mirror it does present may be chilling enough to awaken readers to the costs of not getting it right."--Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (starred review)

A powerful, emotional debut novel about the complicated relationship between a profoundly troubled teenager, Dave "Burn" Burnett, who takes his school hostage at gunpoint and the profoundly untroubled student, Steven "Crash" Crashinsky, who stops him. 30,000 first printing.