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Island

Patrick Downes
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Pages
184
Year
2019
Language
English
Publisher
Groundwood Books Ltd

About

A teenaged boy, struggles as he, watches his family and relationships, fracture after the death of his mother, and is now, faced with the terrible possibility that his twin brother may have just, killed their father.
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?

Related Subjects

  • General
  • Family
  • Young Adult Fiction
  • Mental Illness
  • Social Themes
  • Emotions & Feelings

Extended Details

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