Autumn feels invisible at school until she meets Bryce. This leaves Hunter uncertain about his own identity since he does not know his father. Kristina asserts that Hunter’s father raped her, leaving her pregnant with him.

Hunter is often bothered by his eyes, which look just like the eyes of his biological father. This novel is about how these three children find themselves and their own recovery, together. Summer’s life has been marked by stays in foster homes she was abused by both her foster father and her biological father’s girlfriend. Autumn’s struggle is defined by her OCD and panic attacks. Hunter, a college student who has a girlfriend and a great job, struggles with drug abuse himself. Told in three voices and punctuated by news articles chronicling the family's story, FALLOUT is the stunning conclusion to the trilogy begun by CRANK and GLASS, and a testament to the harsh reality that addiction is never just one person's problem.Ellen Hopkins’s Fallout is the third book in the Crank series it focuses on Kristina’s three children who are trying to deal with the aftermath of Kristina’s addiction to drugs. But it is in each other, and in themselves, that they find the trust, the courage, the hope to break the cycle. As each searches for real love and true family, they find themselves pulled toward the one person who links them together - Kristina, Bree, mother, addict. Doubt and loneliness overwhelm her, and she, too, teeters on the edge of her mother's notorious legacy. To her, family is only abuse at the hands of her father's girlfriends and a slew of foster parents. Summer doesn't know about Hunter, Autumn, or their two youngest brothers, Donald and David.

And the consequences of her decisions suggest that there's more of Kristina in her than she'd like to believe. When her aunt gets married, and the only family she's ever known crumbles, Autumn's compulsive habits lead her to drink. Autumn lives with her single aunt and alcoholic grandfather. He's struggling to understand why his mother left him, when he unexpectedly meets his rapist father, and things get even more complicated. Hunter is nineteen, angry, getting by in college with a job at a radio station, a girlfriend he loves in the only way he knows how, and the occasional party. They share only a predisposition for addiction and a host of troubled feelings toward the mother who barely knows them, a mother who has been riding with the monster, crank, for twenty years. Hunter, Autumn, and Summer - three of Kristina Snow's five children - live in different homes, with different guardians and different last names.

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