Learning Not to Drown

✍ Scribed by Anna Shinoda

• Book ID: 100239432
• Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 218 KB
• Edition: First Atheneum paperback edition
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 153443948X

✦ Synopsis

"Anna Shinoda's deeply informed story is not to be missed." --Dr. Drew Pinsky, Celebrity Rehab and Teen Mom

Family secrets cut to the bone in this mesmerizing debut novel about a teen whose drug-addicted brother is the prodigal son one time too many.
There is a pecking order to every family. Seventeen-year-old Clare is the overprotected baby; Peter is the typical, rebellious middle child; and Luke is the can't-do-wrong favorite. In their eyes, they are a normal, happy family. But sometimes it's the people who are closest to us who are the hardest to see.

Clare loves her older brother, Luke--it's not his fault that he's always in the wrong place at the wrong time. Life as Luke's sister hasn't been easy--their community hasn't been nearly as forgiving of his transgressions as she and her parents are--but he's done his time and is on his way home again, and she has to believe this time will be different. But when the...