Fantasy & SciFi
Ashley Little’s follow-up to Anatomy of a Girl Gang (Arsenal), her 2013 novel that won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize at the British Columbia Book Prize, and was longlisted for the €100,00 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
Set in the mid-1990s, the novel’s protagonist is an 11-year-old boy named Tucker, who is forced into a youth group home when his single mother Gina, an exotic dancer, is hospitalized after being hit by a car. He thinks finding his long-lost father – Sam Malone, who runs a bar in Boston -- will solve everything, so he escapes from the foster home with his new friend, 16-year-old Meredith, and embarks on a cross-country odyssey to find him, only to witness the raw trauma of American life, culminating in the Rodney King race riots in LA.
This is a novel for adults, though mature teens will appreciate it.
Of course, there have been many classic adult novels written with child protagonists: To Kill a Mockingbird; Life of Pi. Tucker is a compelling creation – a wise old soul with an open heart. (Young actor Jacob Tremblay of Room who would be perfect in the film version!)
Freelance publicity by Sheryl Johnston (Chicago).
© 2016 Arsenal Pulp Press (E-bog): 9781551526614
Release date
E-bog: 10. oktober 2016
Fantasy & SciFi
Ashley Little’s follow-up to Anatomy of a Girl Gang (Arsenal), her 2013 novel that won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize at the British Columbia Book Prize, and was longlisted for the €100,00 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
Set in the mid-1990s, the novel’s protagonist is an 11-year-old boy named Tucker, who is forced into a youth group home when his single mother Gina, an exotic dancer, is hospitalized after being hit by a car. He thinks finding his long-lost father – Sam Malone, who runs a bar in Boston -- will solve everything, so he escapes from the foster home with his new friend, 16-year-old Meredith, and embarks on a cross-country odyssey to find him, only to witness the raw trauma of American life, culminating in the Rodney King race riots in LA.
This is a novel for adults, though mature teens will appreciate it.
Of course, there have been many classic adult novels written with child protagonists: To Kill a Mockingbird; Life of Pi. Tucker is a compelling creation – a wise old soul with an open heart. (Young actor Jacob Tremblay of Room who would be perfect in the film version!)
Freelance publicity by Sheryl Johnston (Chicago).
© 2016 Arsenal Pulp Press (E-bog): 9781551526614
Release date
E-bog: 10. oktober 2016
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