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ISBN-10: 1773061925
ISBN-13: 9781773061924
Author: Downes, Patrick
Interest Level: 9-12
Publisher: Groundwood Books

Publication Date: May 2019

Copyright: 2019

Page Count: 160

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Interest Level

Grades 9-12

Reading Level

Lexile: HL660L

BISAC Subjects

YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Mental Illness *

YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Emotions & Feelings *

YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Family / General (see also headings under Social Themes) *

Description
Seventeen-year-old Rad comes home to find his father lying broken and dead at the bottom of the ravine behind their house. Rad's twin brother, shaken but very much alive, had watched their father fall. Desperate to understand what has happened before calling the police, Rad confronts his brother and the complicated landscape of their past. He reconstructs not just the circumstances leading to his father's death, but the history of his family. How can a family simply disintegrate? Were they ever happy, or were the roots of unhappiness always there? What plagued his father? What plagues Rad? As the time comes to do the right thing, the question remains. Did his brother kill their father? And what will happen to the boys now?.