"The fault, dear Brutus is not in our stars, but in ourselves ... (that we are underlings)". Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.
Hazel and Gus have had cancer, and they think Shakespeare got that quote all wrong! It’s not their fault they have cancer…the fault IS in the stars. Life’s just a crapshoot and they lost.
Hazel was thirteen when she got the diagnosis of terminal cancer. At sixteen she is being kept
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alive by a miracle drug and an oxygen tank. She meets Gus at a cancer support meeting. Gus is hot, and has a great sense of humor… even though a malignant bone tumor has claimed most of one leg.
As they grow closer, Gus decides to use his Grant-a-Wish wish to take Hazel to Amsterdam, so that she can finally find out from her favorite author what happens to the characters in her favorite book. Along the trip, Hazel struggles
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