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Pick a card, any card... Would you rather be an amazing artist or a brilliant mathematician? Would you rather lose your mother or your father? Would you rather roast to death or freeze to death? It's a silly game hosted by a substitute teacher, an exercise in exploring the workings…
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A substitute teacher messes with the lives of high school physics students by having them play a mind game where they draw a card with choices they must choose between that would determine their fate. Astonishingly, one by one, the choices that they made came to fruition.
Kimberly Baer has created a cast of imperfect but believable characters with an equal balance of teenage angst and audacity. This is a story of survival, young love, loss, trust, and the inner strength one must summon to face adversity and demons created by both human fallibility and fate. Part fantasy, part…
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