What they always tell us / Martin Wilson.

Author: Wilson, Martin, 1973-

Edition: 1st ed.

Publisher: New York : Delacorte Press, c2008.

ISBN: 9780385735070 (trade hardcover)
0385735073 (trade hardcover)
9780385905008 (Gibraltar lib. bdg.)
0385905009 (Gibraltar lib. bdg.)

Description: 293 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject: Social isolation Fiction.
Brothers Fiction.
Self-actualization (Psychology) Fiction.
High schools Fiction.
Schools Fiction.
Homosexuality Fiction.
Family life Alabama Fiction.
Tuscaloosa (Ala.) Fiction.

Summary: Sixteen-year-old Alex feels so disconnected from his friends that he starts his junior year at a Tuscaloosa, Alabama, high school by attempting suicide, but soon, a friend of his older brother draws him into cross-country running and a new understanding of himself.