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When you piss off a bridge into a snowstorm, it feels like you''re connecting with eternal things. Paying homage to something or someone. But who? The Druids? Walt Whitman? No, I pay homage to one person only, my brother, my twin. In life. In death. Telemachus. Since the death of his brother, Jonathan''s been losing his grip on reality. Last year''s Best Young Poet and gifted guitarist is now Taft High School''s resident tortured artist, when he bothers to show up. He''s on track to repeat eleventh grade, but his English teacher, his principal, and his crew of Thicks (who refuse to be seniors without him) won''t sit back and let him fail.

Seventeen year-old dirt-bike-riding daredevil Arlo Santiago catches the eye of the U.S. military with his first-place ranking on a video game featuring drone warfare, and must reconcile the work they want him to do with the emotional scars he has suffered following a violent death in his family. Adios, Nirvana author Conrad Wesselhoeft, takes readers from the skies over war-torn Pakistan to the dusty arroyos of New Mexico''s outback in this young adult novel about daring to live in the wake of unbearable loss.