Thanks for the Trouble

Tommy Wallach

Feb 2016 · Sold by Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

A unique story about first—and last—loves from the celebrated and bestselling author of We All Looked Up.

Parker Santé hasn’t spoken a word in five years. While his classmates plan for bright futures, he skips school to hang out in hotels, killing time by watching the guests. But when he meets a silver-haired girl named Zelda Toth, a girl who claims to be quite a bit older than she looks, he’ll discover there just might be a few things left worth living for.

Ratings and reviews

Without spoiling anything, this book just does such a brilliant job of putting life into perspective. It's just written in a very real "a 17 year old kid in 2016 wrote this" way, but it's a brilliant 17 year old kid, and it's written brilliantly. I have like 3 or 4 quotes from it in my quote book. My favorite being "But I think life is a little like one of those special memory-foam mattresses that they advertise on TV, where you can drop a bowling ball on one side and the person sleeping a few inches away doesnt feel a thing. Our biggest tragedies are still just ours" Our biggest tragedies are still just ours is such a profound statement, and even if it isn't true all the time, it's certainly the way it is a lot of the time. Support is one thing, but there are few tragedies that are truly shared between people. I discovered this book when I was 14, and almost 5 years later every time I read it I still find new meaning and I grow to appreciate it more and more. It's just that good.

Man, this book has been the best I have read for awhile. Everything about this book is perfect, the plot, the humor, the stories, the whole book itself. I can totally see this book becoming a movie just like the John Green books/movies. You can even see the movie having Parker Sante being like a narrator, (even though he is mute) talking in his head or journal. Just AMAZING!!!!

Dumb cause i get in it then my phone freeze hate it

About the author

Tommy Wallach is the author of the Anchor & Sophia trilogy, Thanks for the Trouble, and the New York Times bestselling We All Looked Up, which has been translated into over a dozen languages. His writing has appeared in McSweeney’s, Tin House, Wired, and other magazines, and he is a MacDowell Fellow. He was signed to Decca Records as a singer-songwriter, and has independently released two full-length albums, including We All Looked Up: The Album, a companion record to his first novel. He currently lives in Los Angeles, where he recently opened up his first escape room, and is working on bringing his novels to various sorts of screens. Grok more at TommyWallach.com.