After announcing he would sign all 150,000 copies of this title’s first print run, it shot to the top of Amazon and Barnes & Noble’s best-seller lists six months before publication. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Green’s promotional genius is a force of nature. In its every aspect, this novel is a triumph. But it is life that Green spiritedly celebrates here, even while acknowledging its pain. In the process, Green shows his readers what it is like to live with cancer, sometimes no more than a breath or a heartbeat away from death. Beautifully conceived and executed, this story artfully examines the largest possible considerations-life, love, and death-with sensitivity, intelligence, honesty, and integrity. Happily, Green is able to transcend such pitfalls in his best and most ambitious novel to date. John Green is the award-winning, 1 bestselling author of books including Looking for Alaska, The Fault in Our Stars, and Turtles All the Way Down. Writing about kids with cancer is an invitation to sentimentality and pathos-or worse, in unskilled hands, bathos. What happens when they meet him must be left to readers to discover. To find out, the enterprising Augustus makes it possible for them to travel to Amsterdam, where Imperial’s author, an expatriate American, lives.

Most particularly, she longs to know what happened to its characters after an ambiguous ending. Both kids are preternaturally intelligent, and Hazel is fascinated with a novel about cancer called An Imperial Affliction.

To help her deal with this, her doctor sends her to a weekly support group where she meets Augustus Waters, a fellow cancer survivor, and the two fall in love. At 16, Hazel Grace Lancaster, a three-year stage IV–cancer survivor, is clinically depressed.

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