A review by jrosenstein
Postcards from No Man's Land by Aidan Chambers

4.0

I picked this one up from the library on the strength of it being a Printz winner, and the Printz committee did not let me down. There's a lot of big, deep stuff here, but it never feels weighty or didactic. Chambers weaves in themes of love, sex, death, identity, history and family effortlessly and meaningfully. Unlike most YA novels, Chambers is content to dwell in ambiguity, and while the adolescent protagonist does do some growing up and coming in to his own, not everything is solved or neatly tied up in a bow.