Being Fishkill - Couverture rigide

Lehrer, Ruth

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0763684422 ISBN 13 : 9780763684426

Editeur : Candlewick, 2017

Synopsis

Fishkill Carmel fends for herself, with her fists if need be — until a thwarted lunch theft introduces her to strange, sunny Duck-Duck and a chance for a new start.

Born in the backseat of a moving car, Carmel Fishkill was unceremoniously pushed into a world that refuses to offer her security, stability, love. At age thirteen, she begins to fight back. Carmel Fishkill becomes Fishkill Carmel, who deflects her tormenters with a strong left hook and conceals her secrets from teachers and social workers. But Fishkill’s fierce defenses falter when she meets eccentric optimist Duck-Duck Farina, and soon they, along with Duck-Duck’s mother, Molly, form a tentative family, even as Fishkill struggles to understand her place in it. This fragile new beginning is threatened by the reappearance of Fishkill’s unstable mother — and by unfathomable tragedy. Poet Ruth Lehrer’s young adult debut is a stunning, revelatory look at what defines and sustains “family.” And, just as it does for Fishkill, meeting Duck-Duck Farina and her mother will leave readers forever changed.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Ruth Lehrer is a poet, author, and American Sign Language interpreter. She lives in the woods of western Massachusetts.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Candlewick
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0763684422
• ISBN 13: 9780763684426
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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