Peter secretly pines for Eliza, the promiscuous amateur photographer who is recovering from the spur-of-the-moment kiss she received from him in the school’s darkroom. The story begins with Peter, the good-looking and popular athlete with a lucrative basketball scholarship lined up ahead of him who’s looking for something more meaningful in life than glory on the court. An asteroid nicknamed “Ardor” has been spotted, tracked, and is slowly but surely making a slow descent towards a collision with earth, forcing the kids in a Seattle-area high school to face personal truths that shatter the confining roles that have previously been imposed on them from the outside. In Tommy Wallach’s We All Looked Up, his debut novel and it’s companion album, the perennial complaint of teenagers everywhere is turned into a literal and - surprisingly - empowering reality. One of the occupational hazards of being an adolescent is that life often feels like it’s coming to an end. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 384 pages, $17.99. We All Looked Up and We All Looked Up: The Album by Tommy Wallach. It’s not by accident that some of the greatest coming-of-age stories are concerned with deconstructing social stereotypes.
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