![]() Together, they explore interests and relationships now that it seems like there’s nothing to lose. Andy decides that these four (plus a few other friends and not-really-friends) are part of a “karass”-that is, a group of people somehow linked together (which Andy takes from Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle). ![]() The teens are very much a Breakfast Club -inspired bunch, including an athlete, a brain, a punk, etc. What do you do when it seems certain the world will end? Well, you start to reassess your priorities, apparently. Author Tommy Wallach's debut novel We All Looked Up takes a very different approach to the genre, which focuses on a group of teenagers bonding as it looks like the world will soon end thanks to an impending asteroid strike. Everyone has 7 or 8 weeks to just wait for this to (potentially) happen. The world is thrown into chaos when scientists decide that the asteroid is 66.6% likely to collide with Earth. In the simplest terms and the most convenient definitions, We All Looked Upis a story about Andy (the stoner punk who’s in the charmingly named band Perineum), Eliza (the artist with a reputation for being easy), Anita (the perfect good girl headed to Princeton), and Peter (the athlete having an existential crisis), who are brought together by an asteroid. Imagine if The Breakfast Club was set not during Saturday detention but instead was set during the weeks leading up to the apocalypse. ![]()
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