Type: children's
Status: neutral
Author: Sarah Ellis
Tags: canada dysfunctional_families ya_lit mental_illness Fathers cousins grandparents
Description: A teenage boy goes to spend a summer with his paternal grandmother and girl cousins -- whomA teenage boy goes to spend a summer with his paternal grandmother and girl cousins -- whom he doesn't know very well -- as his father died years earlier in a car accident -- and his mother has just remarried. What he discovers, by inhabiting his father's boyhood bedroom, is a fantasy spy story his father wrote -- and unfortunately lived. It emerges that his father had had a paranoid schizophrenic period in his youth.
A more tragic version of Hilary McKay's The Exiles (sent to live with an unfamiliar grandmother)......
2007-12-27
