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Saints of the household / Ari Tison.

Tison, Ari, (author.).

Summary:

"Max and Jay have always depended on each other for their survival. Growing up with an abusive father, the two brothers have learned that the only way to protect themselves and their mother is to keep their heads down. And create art. But when they hear a girl in trouble in the woods after school, instinct takes over and they intervene, interrupting a fight and beating up their high school's star soccer player. When the authorities arrive and statements are taken, Max and Jay realize they may have misread the situation. Did they? With their college dreams in jeopardy, this one act of violence shakes their idea of who they thought they were -- as brothers, as sons, as men. Max and Jay will have to reach back to their Bribri (Indigenous Costa Rican) roots to find their way forward -- and face the truth of what really happened in those woods. Told in alternating points of view using vignettes and poems, Ari Tison's debut novel draws on her Bribri American identity to paint a slow-burning small-town drama about brotherhood, abuse, recovery, and doing the right thing."-- Jacket flap.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780374389499
  • ISBN: 0374389497
  • Physical Description: 312 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, [2023].

Content descriptions

Target Audience Note:
Ages 14-18. Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers.
Grades 10-12. Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers.
HL680L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 4.5 5 521949.

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Subject: Indians of Central America > Costa Rica > Fiction.
Indigenous peoples > Costa Rica > Fiction.
Costa Rican Americans > Fiction.
Fathers and sons > Fiction.
Bribri Indians > Fiction.
Brothers > Fiction.
Violence > Fiction.
Genre: Social problem fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Young adult fiction.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Caswell County Public Library.

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