Knowing herself to be different, Astrid finds the best way to cope is to lie on the picnic bench in the back garden and send love and life questions to passengers on aeroplanes. A senior in high school she not only has to endure the small mindedness of the locals, but the increasing disparity and dysfunction of her family. However, this book stretches us a little further.Īstrid, our protagonist, is a teenager living with her family in a small town in Pennsylvania, having moved from New York City. A reminder of how, for some of us, we coped in our youth when questions of sexuality arose and that feeling of being a little different from the crowd.Īsk the Passengers by AS King is essentially about love and acceptance a classic coming of age – coming out story. Teenager Astrid has it down to a fine art. Sending love to the aeroplanes while lying on a picnic table is something I’d like to do a little more often.
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