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Lädt ... Wrecker: A Novel (1911)von Summer Wood
Werk-InformationenWrecker von Summer Wood (1911)
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. 3 in ILL, none in CC Spoilers are here. They must have given this book free. I checked it out because it was shortlisted for the award for women writing about the west. It was OK. Wrecker's mother goes to jail and he goes off to a remote place on the northern California coast to live with a small group of people. I wasn't really sure why those people were there. The women didn't ring totally true to me. But they take the kid in and he grows up. 1960s adoption story. When a string of bad decisions results in his mother's arrest and imprisonment, Wrecker goes to live with family he's never met, far away in Humboldt County. His uncle Len is barely able to keep track of him because he's struggling to take care of Meg, his newly disabled wife. Luckily for Wrecker, Len's friends live close by; Melody, Willow, Ruth, and Johnny Appleseed take Wrecker in and raise him. While Lisa Fay is incarcerated, Melody becomes Wrecker's mother, and his memories of his birth mother, both traumatic and loving, fade. Summary BPL Why the 1960s? Other than to use the motley group of alternative lifestyles iconic of that era...? The seemingly pointlessness of placing the story in the 60s was a constant distraction for me. Wrecker has content and deals with a sensitive topic. I felt the characters, although diverse and deep, didn't demonstrate growth over the 20-some year arc of the novel. Diese Rezension wurde für LibraryThing Early Reviewers geschrieben. Wrecker is a quiet novel that takes a while to build. I thought little Wrecker's story was a good one, but I wished he had more of a central role early on in the book. It would have been nice to have heard his voice from the beginning instead of everyone else's. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
After foster-parenting four young siblings a decade ago, Summer Wood tried to imagine a place where kids who are left alone or taken from their families would find the love and the family they deserve. For her, fiction was the tool to realize that world, and Wrecker, the central character in her second novel, is the abandoned child for whom life turns around in most unexpected ways. It's June of 1965 when Wrecker enters the world. The war is raging in Vietnam, San Francisco is tripping toward flower power, and Lisa Fay, Wrecker's birth mother, is knocked nearly sideways by life as a single parent in a city she can barely manage to navigate on her own. Three years later, she's in prison, and Wrecker is left to bounce around in the system before he's shipped off to live with distant relatives in the wilds of Humboldt County, California. When he arrives he's scared and angry, exploding at the least thing, and quick to flee. The eccentric clan had come to California looking to build a community, maybe, but not a family. But from the moment Wrecker walks into Ruth's arms, a transformation begins that ripples far beyond one nearly broken, wholly remarkable boy. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Klassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
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