Frederick Langlois could be that geeky 17-year-old found in every
high school the one who closely clutches his poem-filled notebook,
who feels a bit too deeply, who s just a little too old for his
years. But Frederick isn t in high school. He s in a hospital ward
with other critically ill adolescents, dying of bone cancer.
Mercury Under the Tongue chronicles his short stay there,
from his distant but friendly relationship with his therapist
through comic moments in the ward and his emergent friendships with
other teenage patients. Some survive, others are lost, and at the
end, Frederick must make a final reckoning with himself and his
family, one that is at once dispassionate and deeply felt. Avoiding
both misty stoicism and made-for-TV bathos, the book exposes the
fallible body as the humanizing factor that grounds spirited
adolescent talk, creating a believable, likable protagonist while
weaving a compelling, lyrical story."
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