Once again blending multiple story strands that transcend time and placeGrasshopper Jungleauthor Andrew Smith tells the story of -year-old Ariel arefugee from theMiddle East who is the sole survivor of an attack on his small village Now living with an adoptive family in Sunday West Virginia Ariels story of his summer at a boys camp for tech detox is juxtaposed against those of a schizophrenic bomber and the diaries of a failed arctic expedition from the late nineteenth century Oh and therersquos also a depressed bionic reincarnated crow