How To Read The Book Unwind

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In the opening seen of Unwind by Neal Shusterman, Connor and his girlfriend are discussing his options over the busy highway. If I hadn't read the book prior to this, I would have been extremely confused as to what they were discussing. Which was most likely the authors goal. Reading through it a second time helped me look further in the details.

In this story Connor is being unwound. He found this out when he was he sneaking through his fathers office and found 3 plane tickets, there are 4 of them. His girlfriend decided it would be wise for the two of them to become AWOLS. Last minute she dropped out. He then proceeds to get caught and cause a major highway accident and get bitten by a boy he took as a hostage, Lev. Once he gets away with

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