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《Marbury Lens》一書被選為《Publishers Weekly》2010年最佳兒童書。同時，此書已入圍2011年「ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults」。

On the eve of a summer trip to London, sixteen-year-old Jack gets drunk, gets kidnapped, and narrowly escapes. He keeps the kidnapping a secret from everyone but his best friend; he thinks he can handle it. But no matter what he does, he can’t shake the trauma that is stalking him.

Jack believes that once he gets to London, he’ll be able to truly escape what has happened at home. But when he gets there, Jack is approached by another stranger who hands him a pair of glasses. When he looks through the glasses Jack becomes part of an alternate world called Marbury, a stark place, where a brutal war is being fought.

Is Marbury real, or just another manifestation of Jack’s trauma? At the same time Jack is sight-seeing in London and falling in love with a girl he meets; but the pull to Marbury continues to get stronger. Is he losing his mind? Or should he be doing everything he can to get back to Marbury and save the lives of his best friend and two other boys there?

At turns disturbing and full of riveting beauty, Andrew Smith has written his most ambitious novel yet, as he explores the nightmarish outer limits of what trauma can do to our bodies and our minds.

 

ANDREW SMITH is the author of Ghost Medicine, which was a YALSA 2009 Best Books for Young Adults pick, and In the Path of Falling Objects. In addition to writing, Smith teaches high school advance placement classes and coaches rugby. He lives with his family on a ranch in the mountains of Southern California, where the nearest grocery store is twenty miles away. You can visit him on the Web at www.ghostmedicine.com, where he also maintains a blog about writing.

 

“Andrew Smith (Ghost Medicine; In the Path of Falling Objects) once again proves his ability to penetrate complex psyches and mature themes within the framework of a spellbinding plot… Smith keeps the tension between Marbury and the present-day worlds as taut as the tightrope Jack walks. As readers, we feel the addictive pull of The Marbury Lens every bit as strongly as the hero does. Just try to put this book down.” ---- Shelf Awareness, November 10, 2010

“Teen readers will be riveted by this story which explores alternate worlds and realities while posing important questions about loyalty, revenge, and grief.” ---- SLJ Teen, November 3, 2010