Are human beings like separate particles floating through space and time, or are we all connected, revolving around each other, attracting and repelling, coming together to make something bigger? These are the quiet questions underlying the stories of the many characters in PARTICLES, Lindsey Lane's YA novel, told in multiple viewpoints and set in and around a remote pull-out on a rural Texas highway. Before the novel's opening, a high-school boy, a science genius without many friends, disappeared from this very place. He happens to have been obsessed with particle physics.
The story that unfolds is in turns delicate, horrifying, heart-rending, thought-provoking...and altogether gorgeous. It definitely connected with the wonderful Joy Peskin, editorial director of Farrar, Straus, and Giroux Books for Young Readers. She made a preemptive offer on PARTICLES just a few days after it went out on submission—and we were very happy to accept! Joy has slated the project for a fall 2014 release. PARTICLES—or whatever it ends up being titled—will be Lindsey's debut YA novel.
Huge congratulations, Lindsey!
—Erin
Out in April 2013 from HMH: "An intricate, masterful page-turner about politics, treachery, religion, love and healing."—Kirkus, starred
Out in March from Bloomsbury: "it’s an undeniable feast for the eyes."—Publishers Weekly
Out in May from Bloomsbury USA: “Reminiscent of Jeff Kinney's "Diary of a Wimpy Kid."—School Library Journal