Four for the Road (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781665902281)

The Perks of Being a Wallflower meets The End of the F***ing World in this dark young adult comedy about four unlikely friends dealing with the messy side of grief who embark on a road trip to Graceland full of "laughter, tears, budding romance, and well-placed insights" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).

Asher Hunting wants revenge.

Specifically, he wants revenge on the drunk driver who killed his mom and got off on a technicality. No one seems to think this is healthy, though, which is how he ends up in a bereavement group (well, bereavement groups. He goes to several.) It's there he makes some unexpected friends: There's Sloane, who lost her dad to cancer; Will, who lost his little brother to a different kind of cancer; and eighty-year-old Henry, who was married to his wife for fifty years until she decided to die on her own terms. And it's these three who Asher invites on a road trip from New Jersey to Graceland. Asher doesn't tell them that he's planning to steal his dad's car, or the real reason that he wants to go to Tennessee (spoiler alert: it's revenge)--but then again, the others don't share their reasons for going, either.

Complete with unexpected revelations, lots of chicken Caesar salads at roadside restaurants, a stolen motorcycle, and an epic kiss at a rest stop minimart, what begins as the road trip to revenge might just turn into a path towards forgiveness.

Author: K. J. Reilly
ISBN-10: 1665902280
ISBN-13: 9781665902281
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Language: English
Published: 08/23/2022
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 8.49h x 5.85w x 1.04d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 06/01/2022
Booklist 07/01/2022 pg. 70
Publishers Weekly 08/29/2022
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2023 - Outstanding, Noteworthy In Style