Me & Earl & the Dying Girl
By: Jesse Andrews
I’ve waited a long time to post a review for this book because I really just didn’t know what to say. This book is..weird, but in a good way!!
I actually ended up picking this up in a whim at the Dollar Tree because I was looking for something new and fresh. I didn’t have hugely high expectations for this book because I had never heard of it before picking it up. I read it all in one night. It was absolutely hilarious.
Summary: Greg Gaines is the last master of high school espionage, able to disappear at will into any social environment. He has only one friend, Earl, and together they spend their time making movies, their own incomprehensible versions of Coppola and Herzog cult classics. Until Greg’s mother forces him to rekindle his childhood friendship with Rachel. Rachel has been diagnosed with leukemia—-cue extreme adolescent awkwardness—-but a parental mandate has been issued and must be obeyed. When Rachel stops treatment, Greg and Earl decide the thing to do is to make a film for her, which turns into the Worst Film Ever Made and becomes a turning point in each of their lives. And all at once Greg must abandon invisibility and stand in the spotlight.
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