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Book SynopsisAn unforgettable cast of characters is unleashed into a realm known for its cruelty - the American high school - in this captivating debut novel.
Trade ReviewThink
Sweet Valley High reimagined by the cast of
American Honey. ... It is such a good read. * Stylist *
Elegant and impactful. * Sunday Mirror *
The characters in Lindsey Lee Johnson's debut novel affected me in a way I can't remember feeling since I binge-watched all five seasons of
Friday Night Lights. . . . You'll walk away feeling like you could revisit a hallway drama armed with bulletproof perspective. * Glamour US *
In her stunning debut, Johnson . . . explores the fallout among a group of teens-an alpha girl turned stoner, a striving B student, an Ivy League wannabe-who prove, in the end, less entitled than simply empty and searching. An eye-opener. * People (Book of the Week) *
Gripping . . . Each chapter offers a vignette into a more complicated interior life-ones that involve inappropriate student-teacher relationships, cheating on SATs, drugs, sex, and house parties. . . . Lindsey Lee Johnson works a convincing assortment of different voices into her debut. * GQ *
In her superb first novel, Lindsey Lee Johnson deftly illuminates a certain strain of privileged American adolescence and the existential minefield these kids are forced to navigate. Elegantly constructed and beautifully written,
The Most Dangerous Place on Earth reads like Jane Austen for this anxious era. -- Seth Greenland
An astonishing debut novel . . . With a stunning constellation of characters' voices and a fiercely compelling story, it's impossible to put down, or to forget. -- Megan Abbott
In sharp and assured prose, roving among characters, Lindsey Lee Johnson plumbs the terrifying depths of a half-dozen ultraprivileged California high school kids. I read
The Most Dangerous Place on Earth in two chilling gulps. It's a phenomenal first book. -- Anthony Doerr, New York Times bestselling author of All the Light We Cannot See
The characters in
The Most Dangerous Place on Earth, Lindsey Lee Johnson's alarming, compelling and coolly funny debut novel about the goings-on in and out of a high school in Marin County, Calif., spend most of their time spectacularly failing to see beneath one another's surfaces. . . . Ms. Johnson's characters are unpredictable, contradictory and many things at once, which make them particularly satisfying. . . . Here's high school life in all its madness. -- Sarah Lyall * New York Times *
