About

The Author

The author of Truancy is Isamu Fukui, born on February 6, 1990. He is now nineteen years old and a freshman at New York University. Before that he attended Stuyvesant and Hunter College High Schools in New York City. He first decided to become a writer at the age of twelve after being impressed by a collection of J.R.R. Tolkien's notes. The next year he won a National Gold Award in the Scholastic Art & Writing Competition. Two years after that, he decided to use his writing to channel his discontent as a student. The result was Truancy, a novel that cast the institution of school as the enemy.

Today the author remains a firm supporter of student empowerment, and has continued to write about what he believes in. He is not overly fond of special attention, and considers his life outside of writing to be perfectly ordinary. In his free time Fukui enjoys trolling the internet, playing videogames, and taking long naps on the nearest flat surface.

The Book

First and foremost, Truancy is a novel written by a student, for students. Dedicated to everyone that has ever suffered in the name of education, it's an action-packed and entertaining read containing universal themes that anyone can relate to. As much a call for student empowerment as it is an adventure story, Truancy makes a strong appeal to the truant in all of us.

This Website

While this is the official website of the Truancy novel, it was designed with students and fans in mind above all others. A forum community is cultivated and encouraged with the goal of being a common ground for all students. More than an outlet for discontent, this is a place where any civil opinion is welcome. We that run this site understand that every student is an individual, and that no two individuals will ever think precisely the same. Even if we as students are not of one mind we can share ideas that, while different, bind us together all the same.