The Bird Is a Raven Hardcover - 2006

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From the gifted young author of "Crazy" ("A marvel of voice, humor and razor-sharp insight" -"The San Diego" "Union-Tribune"), an edgy, psychologically riveting novel about sex, love, and secrets.
Henry and Paul -- young men still new to adulthood -- are strangers when they find themselves sharing a sleeping compartment on a night train from Munich to Berlin. When they begin to talk, their stories appear to be variations on the same theme: kids adrift in the big city, relationships gone awry, young hearts broken. Both are disillusioned by their awkward journey from the innocence of childhood to the responsibilities expected of grown-up life. Henry is running away from a triangle of friendship that was becoming a dangerous menage a trois. Paul is running away as well, but as the night unwinds and the train speeds north across the German landscape, his story turns ominous: desperate and lost, he has fallen in love with a prostitute who spurned him. What he reveals finally to his unsuspecting traveling companion goes far beyond the boundaries of postadolescent angst and into the darkest sphere of human behavior. Fast-moving, immediate, shocking -- "The Bird Is a Raven" is the work of a writer at the beginning of what promises to be a stellar career.