Overview

In a small hospital town, a trio of teens rebel against their fatal diagnosis of XP, an allergy to sunlight, with late night Parkour, an extreme sport of daredevil risks. On a random summer night, while scaling a building like any other, the three happen to peer into an empty apartment and glimpse an older man with what looks like a dead girl. A game of cat-and-mouse ensues that escalates through the underground world of hospital confinement, off-the-grid sports, and forbidden love. Allie, who can never see the light of day, discovers she's the lone key to stopping a human monster.

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""What We Saw at Night combines exhilaration, fatalism, and mystery in a gripping novel."" -- ""BookPage"" ""What We Saw at Night is an engaging blend of real-world drama involving a life-and-death illness and a whodunit thriller. Imagine John Green's recent The Fault in Our Stars in a mash-up with a Nancy Drew mystery. Plus some roof jumping and wall scaling."" -- ""Pittsburgh Post-Gazette"" ""A contemporary thriller whose tension and excitement are tempered by coincidences, near misses, and credulity-stretching assumptions."" -- ""Publishers Weekly"" ""Dangerously addictive, breathtakingly beautiful, terminally awesome."" -- ""Lauren Myracle, New York Times bestselling author"" ""The fast pace is set from the beginning with Juliet's dazzling jump across the buildings...Recommended for readers who enjoy a unique twist on realistic fiction."" -- ""VOYA"" ""This latest from Mitchard is quickly paced and intricately plotted, with flares of humor cobbled into the dialogue...The suspense will keep [readers] engrossed."" -- ""Kirkus Reviews""

Author Information

Jacquelyn Mitchard was born in Chicago. Her first novel, ""The Deep End of the Ocean,"" was published in 1996, becoming the first selection of the Oprah Winfrey Book Club and a number one ""New York Times"" bestseller. Eight other novels, four children's books and six young adult novels followed, including ""The Midnight Twins, Still Summer, All We Know of Heaven,"" and ""The Breakdown Lane."" A former daily newspaper reporter, Mitchard now is a contributing editor for ""Parade,"" and frequently writes for such publications as ""More"" and ""Real Simple."" Her essays and short stories have been widely anthologized. An adjunct professor in the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program at Fairfield University, she lives in Wisconsin with her husband and their nine children.

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