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244 pp.
| Candlewick |
May, 2009 |
TradeISBN 978-0-7636-3031-7$16.99
(2)
YA
Traveling to visit his brother who's dying of cancer, fourteen-year-old Jamie writes letters. These are interspersed with earlier missives written to Jamie, and gradually his troubled history emerges: time on the streets, punctuated by drugs, sex, and crime. With his quirky idiomatic expressions, striking word choices, and stream-of-consciousness prose, nobody writes about disposable, marginalized youth quite like Adam Rapp.
Reviewer: Jonathan Hunt
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
May, 2009