Grasshopper Jungle [Paperback]

A 2015 Michael L. Printz Honor Book
Winner of the 2014 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction


Raunchy, bizarre, smart and compelling. --Rolling Stone

“Grasshopper Jungleis simultaneously creepy and hilarious. Reminds me of Kurt Vonnegut’s in “Slaughterhouse Five,” in the best sense.” --New York Times Book Review
 

In the small town of Ealing, Iowa, Austin and his best friend, Robby, have accidentally unleashed an unstoppable army. An army of horny, hungry, six-foot-tall praying mantises that only want to do two things.

This is the truth. This is history.
It’s the end of the world. And nobody knows anything about it.
You know what I mean.

Funny, intense, complex, and brave,Grasshopper Junglebrilliantly weaves together everything from testicle-dissolving genetically modified corn to the struggles of recession-era, small-town America in this groundbreaking coming-of-age stunner.

“A literary joy to behold. . . . reminds me of Kurt Vonnegut’sSlaughterhouseFive, in the best sense.”
—The New York Times Book Review

Thisraunchy, bizarre, smart and compellingsci-fi novel defies description – it's best to go into it with an open mind and allow yourself to be first drawn in, then blown away.  
—Rolling Stone
 
“[Grasshopper Jungle] reads more likean absurdist Middlesex…and is all the better for it. A-”
—Entertainment Weekly

 “Nuanced, gross, funny and poignant, it's wildly original.”
—The San Francisco Chronicle 

“If you appreciate kooky humor, sentences that bite, and a nuanced understanding of human beings’ complicated natures and inexplicable actions, then you, too, will love lS0