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387 pp.
| Bloomsbury |
May, 2018 |
TradeISBN 978-1-68119-366-3$17.99
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EbookISBN 978-1-68119-367-0
(3)
YA
In this verse novel, Joe, seventeen, is reacquainted with his older brother Ed, who's on death row, just before Ed's execution date. Free-verse poems effectively interweave the past and present to cast doubt on Ed's guilt in the death of a police officer and to realize the emotions involved in the brothers' complex family situation.