Looking for Alaska
Looking for Alaska is a 2005 young adult novel by John Green, his debut work.
The story follows Miles Halter, a teenager obsessed with famous last words, who attends boarding school in Alabama and falls for the enigmatic Alaska Young.
The novel explores themes of grief, guilt, and the search for meaning.
It won the Michael L.
Printz Award and became a touchstone of contemporary YA fiction, later adapted as a Hulu miniseries.
The title refers both to the character and to the protagonist's larger quest for understanding.
- young adultPerson just past adolescence
- coming of ageReaching adult status
- MilesMasculine given name
- boarding schoolResidential academic institution
- labyrinthIntricate passage network
John Green · suffering · prank · smoking · last words · grief · mystery · death · cigarettes · last cigarette · white flowers · car crash · before · after · to be continued · searching · obsession · teenagers
- banned books1984, Animal Farm, Brave New World, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Lady Chatterley
- NerdfighteriaJohn Green, Hank Green
- coming-of-agecoming-of-age, bildungsroman, growing up, maturation, youth
Looking for AlaskaDivergent
Tending to separate outward
Twilight · The Hunger Games · genre fiction · airport novels · airport fiction
look, looks, looked, looking, looker, lookers, overlook, overlooks, overlooked