Summer Wood
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Wrecker: A Novel par Summer Wood
3 in ILL, none in CC
Spoilers are here. They must have given this book free. I checked it out because it was shortlisted for the award for women writing about the west. It was OK. Wrecker's mother goes to jail and he goes off to a remote place on the northern California coast to live with a small group of people. I wasn't really sure why those people were there. The women didn't ring totally true to me. But they take the kid in and he grows up.
This is a great book--beautifully written--about what it means to be a family.
1960s adoption story. When a string of bad decisions results in his mother's arrest and imprisonment, Wrecker goes to live with family he's never met, far away in Humboldt County. His uncle Len is barely able to keep track of him because he's struggling to take care of Meg, his newly disabled wife. Luckily for Wrecker, Len's friends live close by; Melody, Willow, Ruth, and Johnny Appleseed take Wrecker in and raise him. While Lisa Fay is incarcerated, Melody becomes Wrecker's mother, and his memories of his birth mother, both traumatic and loving, fade. Summary BPL
Why the 1960s? Other than to use the motley group of alternative lifestyles iconic of that era...? The seemingly pointlessness of placing the story in the 60s was a constant distraction for me.
Wrecker has content and deals with a sensitive topic. I felt the characters, although diverse and deep, didn't demonstrate growth over the 20-some year arc of the novel.… (plus d'informations)
Why the 1960s? Other than to use the motley group of alternative lifestyles iconic of that era...? The seemingly pointlessness of placing the story in the 60s was a constant distraction for me.
Wrecker has content and deals with a sensitive topic. I felt the characters, although diverse and deep, didn't demonstrate growth over the 20-some year arc of the novel.… (plus d'informations)
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