This is the question that Henry Denton continues to ask in We are the Ants. As he tries to figure out who he really is, he also starts to discover so much more about the other people in his life. But is that life worth saving? Henry has until January 29, 2016, to figure it all out.
This is a book that I stuck in my backpack a long time ago, with the intention to read it next. I kept finding something else to read instead. After finishing this, I'm mad that I waited so long. I absolutely loved this book. If you are looking for something funny, heartwarming, heartbreaking, and thought provoking (among many other things), give this one a try. You won't regret it.
From Amazon:
From the “author to watch” (Kirkus Reviews) of The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley comes a brand-new novel about a teenage boy who must decide whether or not the world is worth saving.
Henry Denton has spent years being periodically abducted by aliens. Then the aliens give him an ultimatum: The world will end in 144 days, and all Henry has to do to stop it is push a big red button.
Only he isn’t sure he wants to.
After all, life hasn’t been great for Henry. His mom is a struggling waitress held together by a thin layer of cigarette smoke. His brother is a jobless dropout who just knocked someone up. His grandmother is slowly losing herself to Alzheimer’s. And Henry is still dealing with the grief of his boyfriend’s suicide last year.
Wiping the slate clean sounds like a pretty good choice to him.
But Henry is a scientist first, and facing the question thoroughly and logically, he begins to look for pros and cons: in the bully who is his perpetual one-night stand, in the best friend who betrayed him, in the brilliant and mysterious boy who walked into the wrong class. Weighing the pain and the joy that surrounds him, Henry is left with the ultimate choice: push the button and save the planet and everyone on it…or let the world—and his pain—be destroyed forever.
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