Review: Being Henry David

Being Henry David by Cal Armistead Series: Stand Alone Published by Albert Whitman Teen on March 1st 2013 Genres: Young Adult-Contemporary Source: FTC: Exchange for honest opinion, Netgalley Goodreads Seventeen-year-old "Hank" has found himself at Penn Station in New York City with no memory of anything --who he is, where he came from, why he's running away. His only possession is a worn copy of Walden, by Henry David Thoreau. And so he becomes Henry David-or "Hank" and takes first to the streets, and then to the only destination he can think of--Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. Cal Armistead's remarkable debut novel is about a teen in search of himself. Hank begins to piece together recollections from his past. The only way Hank can discover his present is...

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