Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock Audiobook

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• “At a time when bullying and gun violence are at the top of the national conversation, this novel serves as a literary segue for teens, parents, and teachers into an open dialogue on sensitive topics.”

  — USA Today

• “Full disclosure: you might need tissues to make it through Leonard Peacock, but even if you don’t, you’ll likely be touched by Leonard’s story.”

  — Entertainment Weekly

• “Books like Quick’s are necessary...We should be grateful for a book that gets kids, and the leaders they’ll become, thinking about the problem now.”

  — New York Times

• “If only Hollywood could get novelist Matthew Quick to write faster. Everything the Massachusetts-based writer pens seems to be scooped up by the studios as soon as the books are bound.”

  — Los Angeles Times

• “Quick’s attentiveness to these few key relationships and encounters gives the story its strength and razor-like focus…Through Leonard, Quick urges readers to look beyond the pain of the here and now to the possibilities that await.”

  — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

• “Quick’s use of flashbacks, internal dialogue, and interpersonal communication is brilliant, and the suspense about what happened between Leonard and Asher builds tangibly. The masterful writing takes readers inside Leonard’s tormented mind, enabling a compassionate response to him and to others dealing with trauma.”

  — School Library Journal (starred review)

• “Over the course of one intense day (with flashbacks), Leonard’s existential crisis is delineated through an engaging first-person narrative supplemented with footnotes and letters from the future that urge Leonard to believe in a ‘life beyond the übermorons’ at school. Complicated characters and ideas remain complicated, with no facile resolutions, in this memorable story.”

  — Horn Book

• “An artful, hopeful exploration of a teen boy in intense need.”

  — Kirkus Reviews

• “Leonard Peacock is a complicated character, and narrator Noah Galvin quickly conveys his disturbing emotions…Galvin portrays Leonard’s quick changes from hot, vengeful anger to cold, sarcastic distance as well as his flashes of longing and sadness…[and] mix of self-loathing, tenderness, and regret. Galvin’s success is in unifying the many facets of the book. He integrates the narrative and footnotes seamlessly, and, more importantly, he connects the many feelings and tones into a powerful whole with a haunting ending.”

  — AudioFile