Fans will recognize the author's trademark style: this is a gritty, gripping collection of free verse and concrete poems. Hunter is quick to anger and experiments with substances, too Autumn suffers from OCD and panic attacks because "things happened" when she was little and Summer bounces around to different foster homes before running away with her boyfriend. Though not raised by their mother, they are still "dealing with the fallout of choices" she made, beginning in her own teenage years, as the narrative shifts among them. The final installment of the trilogy that began with Crank and Glass examines the impact of Kristina's methamphetamine addiction on three of her children, now teens. Told in three voices and punctuated by news articles chronicling the family’s story, FALLOUT is the stunning conclusion to the trilogy begun by CRANK and GLASS, and a testament to the harsh reality that addiction is never just one person’s problem. But it is in each other, and in themselves, that they find the trust, the courage, the hope to break the cycle. As each searches for real love and true family, they find themselves pulled toward the one person who links them together-Kristina, Bree, mother, addict. Doubt and loneliness overwhelm her, and she, too, teeters on the edge of her mother’s notorious legacy. To her, family is only abuse at the hands of her father’s girlfriends and a slew of foster parents. Summer doesn’t know about Hunter, Autumn, or their two youngest brothers, Donald and David. And the consequences of her decisions suggest that there’s more of Kristina in her than she’d like to believe.
When her aunt gets married, and the only family she’s ever known crumbles, Autumn’s compulsive habits lead her to drink. Autumn lives with her single aunt and alcoholic grandfather. He's struggling to understand why his mother left him, when he unexpectedly meets his rapist father, and things get even more complicated. Hunter is nineteen, angry, getting by in college with a job at a radio station, a girlfriend he loves in the only way he knows how, and the occasional party. They share only a predisposition for addiction and a host of troubled feelings toward the mother who barely knows them, a mother who has been riding with the monster, crank, for twenty years. Hunter, Autumn, and Summer-three of Kristina Snow’s five children-live in different homes, with different guardians and different last names. This gripping conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Crank trilogy features a refreshed look and a trade paperback trim size.
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