Stories for Boys Who Dare to Be Different, both a Sunday Times (London) and New York Times bestseller, which has been translated into twenty-eight languages and received a British National Book Award. He received a Somerset Maugham Award and Jerwood Fiction Prize for his debut novel Lolito, and the Celsius 232 and Premio Torres del Agua for The Impossible Boy. He also writes for television and is developing original TV projects in the UK and Germany.
A Lit Hub Brooks tagged five books featuring people who decided to give away large amounts of money. One title on the list:
Read about the other books on Brooks's list at Lit Hub.Ann Napolitano, Dear Edward
As the single survivor of a plane crash, twelve-year-old Edward will spend the rest of his life trying to make sense of the tragedy that spared him. When he receives a large amount of cash in compensation, he begins giving it away to the surviving relatives of crash victims. Here, giving money away becomes a way of seeking out meaning amidst the senseless luck of existence.
--Marshal Zeringue
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