I am the Messenger – by Markus Zusak
If you loved The Book Thief, you have to read this book. If you hated The Book Thief, you have to read this book. Markus Zusak reveals his true gift as he transforms his writing style and stumps the reader. It’s almost a guarantee that you’ll have to “Google it” to understand the ending. It stumped members of the KKHS Teacher Book Club!
Ed Kennedy, a 19 year old cab driver, becomes an unlikely hero in a bank robbery gone wrong. News reports make him insta-famous.
Ed lives a lonely life that is hollow. His only housemate is an odoriferous dog. He occasionally plays card games with his friends and quietly admires the love of his life from a distance. Then everything changes.
One night he receives an Ace of Diamonds with three addresses and three times written on it. He soon learns of a man who brutalizes his wife each night while their daughter cries on the front porch, a senile woman who aches for a love lost, and a high school athlete who prefers to run barefoot but fails to win any of her track meets. It’s up to Ed to solve each of these problems. Or else.
And just when he thinks he’s done, the Ace of Diamonds arrives…
Happy Reading!
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