John Green’s audiobook The Fault in Our Stars is the story of a teenage girl named Hazel who has terminal cancer. Hazel is forced by her parents to attend a support group for teens with cancer where she meets Augustus, a boy her age who is in remission. Hazel and Augustus become friends, and eventually lovers. She introduces Augustus to her favorite book by Peter Van Houten, which ends in mid sentence. When Augustus is granted a wish from a fictional foundation, he uses it to fly himself and Hazel to Amsterdam so Hazel can meet Van Houten and ask him about the ending of his novel. They meet Van Houten, who turns out to be an unforgivably rude alcoholic, and Augustus and Hazel return completely disillusioned by their trip. Once home, Augustus discovers that his cancer has returned, and he eventually dies. At his funeral, Hazel is surprised to see Van Houten, who admits to Hazel that he lost his own daughter when she was young to cancer and has never overcome the pain of that loss; something that Hazel now understands well and can forgive.

     Green’s audiobook again deals with the moral ambiguity that can be found in people. Like Alaska, Van Houten shows that good people can do bad things, but that does not mean they are bad people. Green’s audiobook is heartbreaking and complex, and told through the voice of Kate Rudd, Hazel's painful journey becomes all that more real and poignant.



Green, J. (Author) & Rudd, K. (Narrator). (2012). The Fault in Our Stars [Audiobook].

     Brilliance Audio. October 24, 2012, from www.epl.ca



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Extras

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And check below for Green's VlogBrothers video in which he talks about the audiobook version of The Fault in Our Stars.



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