One unusual setting + 2 alternating POVs + Katcher’s
distinctive humorous tone = 1 amazing book.
I always gravitate toward a Katcher read because I know I’m
going to smile all the way through it. Katcher consistently manages to address
serious topics and reveal his characters through humor. (I don’t think anything
illustrates a character’s world view quite as vividly as their own personal sense
of humor.) In ANA & ZAK, Katcher also keeps from relying on stereotypical
differences between his male and female alternating narrators; the differences
in narration are both subtle and smartly handled. Fun read with some great,
realistic characters that teens will instantly recognize and identify with.
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About THE IMPROBABLE THEORY OF ANA & ZAK:
The Improbable Theory of Ana and Zak
is Stonewall Book Award-winning author Brian Katcher’s hilarious he
said/she said romance about two teens recovering from heartbreak and
discovering themselves on an out-of-this-world accidental first date.
It all begins when Ana Watson's little brother, Clayton, secretly ditches the quiz bowl semifinals to go to the Washingcon sci-fi convention on what should have been a normal, résumé-building school trip.
If slacker Zak Duquette hadn't talked up the geek fan fest so much, maybe Clayton wouldn't have broken nearly every school rule or jeopardized Ana’s last shot at freedom from her uptight parents.
Now, teaming up with Duquette is the only way for Ana to chase down Clayton in the sea of orcs, zombies, bikini-clad princesses, Trekkies, and Smurfs. After all, one does not simply walk into Washingcon.
But in spite of Zak's devil-may-care attitude, he has his own reasons for being as lost as Ana-and Ana may have more in common with him than she thinks. Ana and Zak certainly don’t expect the long crazy night, which begins as a nerdfighter manhunt, to transform into so much more…
It all begins when Ana Watson's little brother, Clayton, secretly ditches the quiz bowl semifinals to go to the Washingcon sci-fi convention on what should have been a normal, résumé-building school trip.
If slacker Zak Duquette hadn't talked up the geek fan fest so much, maybe Clayton wouldn't have broken nearly every school rule or jeopardized Ana’s last shot at freedom from her uptight parents.
Now, teaming up with Duquette is the only way for Ana to chase down Clayton in the sea of orcs, zombies, bikini-clad princesses, Trekkies, and Smurfs. After all, one does not simply walk into Washingcon.
But in spite of Zak's devil-may-care attitude, he has his own reasons for being as lost as Ana-and Ana may have more in common with him than she thinks. Ana and Zak certainly don’t expect the long crazy night, which begins as a nerdfighter manhunt, to transform into so much more…
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