Before. Miles “Pudge” Halter’s whole existence has been one big nonevent, and his obsession with famous last words only made him crave the “great perhaps” even more. He heads off to the sometimes crazy, possibly unstable, anything but boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self destructive, screwed-up and utterly fascinating Alaska Young, who is an event unto herself. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the great perhaps and steals his heart