Island

Island

Hardback (13 Jun 2019)

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Publisher's Synopsis

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?

Book information

ISBN: 9781773061924
Publisher: Groundwood Books
Imprint: Groundwood Books
Pub date:
Language: English
Number of pages: 184
Weight: 317g
Height: 216mm
Width: 140mm
Spine width: 19mm