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This is the part where you laugh by Peter Brown Hoffmeister Hardcover YOUNG ADULT

Peter Brown Hoffmeister’s first young adult novel, This Is the Part Where You Laugh, opens with the young protagonist Travis releasing two small South American crocodiles he bought from a guy who posted a flier at the Chevron station—caimans—into the little lake in the middle of the North Eugene neighborhood where Travis lives.

Travis seems to have everything working against him; cancer, abandonment, addiction, and gangs. Even through all of that he still has his best friend Creature, basketball, loving grandparents and the girl he spotted who lives across the lake. The story alternates between the present and the past, allowing you to get a true feel for Travis and who he is as a person and reminds you to look past someone's social standing and see who the true person is underneath. Travis breaks the mold of the typical YA main character, however in my mind, it's Creature who really steals the show. Creature loves basketball as much as Travis, but he is also obsessed with learning and writing about historical princesses. Although I usually read to escape the harsh reality around us this book put me squarely into the underprivileged and realistic mind-frame. This book fills a niche in YA that has previously been touched by only a few authors.

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Hardcover, 336 pages
Published May 17th 2016 by Knopf Books for Young Readers