SINGAPORE - In the books of young adult author Patrick Ness, there is often an inversion, a flipping of the world as we know it on its head.
It is not the jealous queen who murders the beautiful young woman, for instance. In The Rest Of Us Just Live Here (2015), a story about the apocalypse, the narrator is the kid just trying to get through high school while some other Chosen Ones save the world in the background.
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