Boneyard
ISBN-13: 9781891241338
Contributor(s): Stephen Beachy
Subject: Modern & Contemporary Fiction (Post 1945)
Publisher Imprint: Verse Chorus Press
Publication Date: 23-02-2012
Format: Paperback
Availability: Out of stock
£15.99
About the book
Jake Yoder, a precocious boy caught between Amish culture and the modern world, sits in a sixth-grade classroom writing stories at the behest of a stern yet charismatic teacher. Jake's stories feature children who are crushed, imprisoned and distorted, yet somehow flailing around with a kind of bedazzled awe, trying to find a way out. The strange logic and disturbing shifts in Jake's tales reveal a young boy processing intense emotional experiences in the wake of his mother's suicide and his own proximity to a 2006 schoolroom shooting.