The Wind Will Catch You
β Scribed by Michelle Theall
- Book ID
- 111853096
- Publisher
- CROOKED LANE BOOKS
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 2 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781639104666
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β¦ Synopsis
In the tradition of Barbara Kingsolver and perfect for fans of Mostly Dead Things, in this powerful debut novel, a young woman searches for the truth about her childhood, and what she finds forever altersΒ her beliefs about home, identity, and family.
Sky Fielder is a typical college student, except that she is a product of the foster care system, lives in a halfway house, and meets with her caseworker on a weekly basis. While failing to balance her grades and erratic social life, she receives a call from a hospital, asking her to make medical decisions for her brother Benβwho died more than a decade before. Β
The call must be a scam, and besides, Sky has a new life now. None of her classmates know about her desperate and feral childhood in West Texas, where her brother kept her mind off hunger with adventures along the riverbeds and cliffs surrounding their trailerβor about the rash decision that cost him his life and almost ended...
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