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Book event with Carol Plum-Ucci, author of INSANE POSSIBILITIES
About INSANE POSSIBILITIES
In INSANE POSSIBILITIES, we meet Toby Kellerman, a teenager who, on the eve of his eighteenth birthday, plummeted ninety feet down a well while on family vacation. Seven weeks into recovery, Toby finds himself stuck in a “suspension hell” – a rotation bed for his spinal cord injuries and broken bones. With only the ability to move his arms, Toby is forced to spend his days watching life through an adjustable mirror, with his thoughts swirling to one frightening conclusion:
Somebody pushed him.
As police officers investigate Toby’s accident as attempted murder, they center on two suspects – Toby’s sisters, Grace and Trinity. Fifteen-year-old Grace is a bubbly popular teen with no reason to harm Toby. Eleven-year-old Trinity, with her stratospheric IQ and limited verbal skills, seems the most likely suspect, despite the special bond she shares with her older brother. For Toby, one of his sisters trying to kill him is hard to grasp, even harder to believe, especially as strange things start happening to him in the hospital.
Items move around the room, drawers open and shut on their own, and someone or something keeps pulling off his sock and scratching his leg. With the help of a fellow rehab patient, Toby suspects his fall isn’t an accident or attempted murder, but a haunting – one tied to local lore about an 18th-century orphan who fell down a well.
As INSANE POSSIBILITIES hurtles towards its unforgettable conclusion, Toby is confronted with an impossible crisis of belief: is he the victim of a malevolent spirit or is he imagining it all in order to protect one of his beloved sisters?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Carol Plum-Ucci is best known for her young adult novels that explore themes of psychological suspense, mystery, and the complexities of human nature. Her debut novel, The Body of Christopher Creed, won a Michael L. Printz Honor Book Award along with many other national honors. The novel’s dark, atmospheric tone and exploration of identity and social alienation resonated with young readers, earning Plum-Ucci a spot as a notable voice in contemporary YA literature. Following her debut, Plum-Ucci wrote six successful novels, five of which won national awards. She has twice been a finalist in the Edgar Allan Poe Awards and has received seven citations from the American Library Association. She lives near Atlantic City, NJ, with her family.
