Looking for Alaska

Miles Harter goes to Culver Creek Boarding School to experience the ‘Great Perhaps’ referred to by the poet Francois Rabelais. It is there that the first friends he’s ever made give him his nickname, ‘Pudge’. Pudge manages to be philosophical about the meaning of life at school, but he also uses this captivating first-person narrative to explore the nature of friendship, loss, sexuality and experimentation.