So many readers have asked, “What happened to Kristina?” that I decided to answer the question with another book.
Glass, the sequel to Crank, is also a NY Times bestseller, and walks you forward from where Crank leaves off.
Glass Excerpt
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Walking with the Monster
Life
was radical
right after I met
Later, life
harder,
complicated.
Ultimately,
hell,
like swimming
against a riptide,
the wrong
direction in the fast
lane of the freeway,
from sweetest
dreams to find yourself
in the middle of a
You Know My Story
Don’t you? All about
into the lair of the monster
drug some people call crank.
Crystal. Tina. Ice.
How a summer visit
to my dad sent me
the arms of a boy — a
hot-bodied hunk, my
very first love, who led
me down the path to
How I came home
Kristina Georgia
Snow, gifted high
school junior, total
dweeb, and
daughter, but
instead a stranger
who called herself Bree.
How, no matter
how hard
fought her, Bree
was stronger, brighter,
better equipped to deal
with a world where
everythingmoved at light
speed, everyone mired
in ego. Where “everyday”
another word
for making love with
Review from Publishers Weekly
Hopkins’s hard-hitting free-verse novel, a sequel, picks up where Crankleft off. Kristina now lives in her mother’s Reno home with her baby, but constantly dreams of “getting/ high. Strung. Getting/ out of this deep well/ of monotony I’m/ slowly drowning in.” When her former connection turns her on to “glass”: “Mexican meth, as/ good as it comes. maybe 90 percent pure,” Kristina quickly loses control again. She gets kicked out of her house after her baby gets hurt on her watch, starts dealing for the Mexican Mafia (“No problem. I’ll play straight/ with them. Cash and carry”) and eventually even robs her mother’s house with her equally addicted boyfriend. The author expertly relays both plot points and drug facts through verse, painting Kristina’s self-narrated self-destruction through clean verses (“My face is hollow-/cheeked, spiced with sores”). She again experiments with form, sometimes writing two parallel poems that can be read together or separately (sometimes these experiments seem a bit cloying, as in “Santa Is Coming,” a concrete poem in the shape of a Christmas tree). But in the end, readers will be amazed at how quickly they work their way through this thick book-and by how much they learn about crystal meth and the toll it takes, both on addicts and their families. Ages 14-up. (Aug.)
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