Wasteland

Francesca Lia Block

Oct 2009 · Sold by Harper Collins

About this ebook

When you were a baby I sat very still to hold you. I could see the veins through your skin like a map to inside you. I stopped breathing so you wouldn't ... You were just a boy on a bed in a room, like a kaleidoscope is a tube full of bits of broken glass. But the way I saw you was pieces refracting the light, shifting into an infinite universe of flowers and rainbows and insects and planets, magical dividing cells, pictures no one else knew ... Your whole life you can be told something is wrong and so you believe it.

Ratings and reviews

I can definitely say that if you've had no prior explosion to Block, this book will leave you out of sorts but it truley is a beautiful book when reflected on. It has a more mature outlook on a relationship that is considered taboo but at the same time, heart wrenching twist that make you realize what could have been and what never happened. It has so many memorable quotes that really touch you and make you feel what every character feels and I will forever love this book.

Someone please answer this so I feel less gypped--It says that it should be 160 pages but when you read it on Google it's only 105 pages. Is that just a formatting issue? Why are there so much less pages?!

Somewhat predictable and entirely too short but overall it's a relatively good read.

About the author

Francesca Lia Block, winner of the prestigious Margaret A. Edwards Award, is the author of many acclaimed and bestselling books, including Weetzie Bat; the book collections Dangerous Angels: The Weetzie Bat Books and Roses and Bones: Myths, Tales, and Secrets; the illustrated novella House of Dolls; the vampire romance novel Pretty Dead; and the gothic werewolf novel The Frenzy. Her work is published around the world.