![]() ![]() Carl, affirming but unreliable, forgets to send them to school regularly, so they move in with responsible but stoic Patrick, who defends and respects Birdie in his own way despite his stern demeanor. That’s where the siblings end up, bouncing between their late mother’s much older brothers after she dies in a somewhat mysterious car accident. ![]() The children in question are narrator Jack, 12, and her brother Birdie, nine, a gender-creative, fashionably precocious kid whose Alexander McQueen–inspired style is underappreciated-to say the least-in the tiny town of Moser, Calif. Nuanez’s debut follows a long tradition of middle grade novels about children virtually on their own, navigating a world of imperfect adults. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |