Turtles All the Way Down is John Green's first novel in six years, and with the pressure to followup The Fault in Our Stars, the author read a short preview on his YouTube channel on Tuesday.
The book opens with an epitaph from Arthur Schopenhauer: "Man can do what he wills, but he cannot will what he wills," and is narrated by 16-year-old Aza Holmes, whom Green stated in the initial announcement is a character who struggles with mental illness.
"Admittedly I have some anxiety problems, but I would argue it isn't irrational to be concerned about the fact that you're a skin-encased bacterial colony," Green reads in Aza's narration. Read more...
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