This book was originally published in 2005 and garnered much critical attention and controversy upon its release. Left to wonder whether the accident was intentional or not, Pudge and his friends investigate clues from her last days, lean on one another for support, and ultimately, grapple with this incredible loss. Pudge and Alaska continue to deepen their friendship until one day Alaska is killed in a drunk driving accident. One of the students in his friend group is Alaska, the eponymous, enigmatic, somewhat emotionally unavailable girl for whom Pudge quickly develops unrequited romantic feelings. The story takes place at Culver Creek Preparatory High School, a boarding school in Alabama, and follows Miles Halter, later nicknamed “Pudge,” and the eccentric new friends he makes during his first year. (Mar.Looking for Alaska is John Green’s first in a long line of romantic young adult dramas. Readers will only hope that this is not the last word from this promising new author. But the novel's chief appeal lies in Miles's well-articulated lust and his initial excitement about being on his own for the first time.

Theological questions from their religion class add some introspective gloss. After Alaska drives drunk and plows into a police car, Miles and the Colonel puzzle over whether or not she killed herself. Green replaces conventional chapter headings with a foreboding countdown-'ninety-eight days before,' 'fifty days before'-and Alaska foreshadows her own death twice ('I may die young,' she says, 'but at least I'll die smart').

Readers may pick up on clues that she is also doomed. Other than her occasional hollow, feminist diatribes, Alaska is mostly male fantasy-a curvy babe who loves sex and can drink guys under the table. When he chucks his boring existence in Florida to begin this chronicle of his first year at an Alabama boarding school, he recalls the poet Rabelais on his deathbed who said, 'I go to seek a Great Perhaps.' Miles's roommate, the 'Colonel,' has an interest in drinking and elaborate pranks-pursuits shared by his best friend, Alaska, a bookworm who is also 'the hottest girl in all of human history.' Alaska has a boyfriend at Vanderbilt, but Miles falls in love with her anyway. This ambitious first novel introduces 16-year-old Miles Halter, whose hobby is memorizing famous people's last words.

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