The Seven Torments of Amy and Craig, by Don Zolidis
The worst thing that's ever happened
to Craig is also the best: Amy.
Amy and Craig never should've gotten together.
Craig is an awkward, Dungeons & Dragons-playing geek, and Amy is the
beautiful, fiercely intelligent student-body president of their high school.
Yet somehow they did until Amy
dumped him. Then got back together with him. Then dumped him again. Then got
back together with him again. Over and over and over.
Unfolding during their senior year,
Amy and Craig's exhilarating, tumultuous relationship is a kaleidoscope of joy,
pain, and laughter as an uncertain future-and adult responsibility-loom on the
horizon.
Craig fights for his dream of
escaping Janesville and finding his place at a quirky college, while Amy's
quest to uncover her true self sometimes involves being Craig's girlfriend and
sometimes doesn't.
Seven heartbreaks. Seven joys. Told
nonsequentially, acclaimed playwright Don Zolidis's debut novel is a brutally
funny, bittersweet taste of the utterly unique and utterly universal experience
of first love.
"Craig's dryly witty narration adds humor... and the
nonlinear narration keeps things interesting. A coming-of-age romance with
bittersweet tones for fans of John Green-style jocularity."―Booklist
