Being Fishkill.

Ruth Lehrer:

ISBN 10: 0763684422 / ISBN 13: 9780763684426

Published by Candlewick Press,, Somerville, Mass., USA:, 2017

About this Item

312pp. As new, unread copy, unmarked. In the publisher's black paper-covered boards, spine titled green. Corners sharp, spine ends slightly blunted. In the protected unclipped (unpriced) pictorial dust jacket: unmarked and crisp, with a minuscule pucker to the head of the lower joint. 'Poet Ruth Lehrer's young adult fiction debut is a stunning, revelatory look at what defines and sustains "family".' Brilliant copy. First edition, with complete number line.

Seller Inventory # 20171050

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Being Fishkill.
• Publisher: Candlewick Press,, Somerville, Mass., USA:
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0763684422
• ISBN 13: 9780763684426
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction: 20th-21stC Fiction;

About this title

Synopsis

Fishkill Carmel fends for herself, with her fists if need be — until a thwarted lunch theft introduces her to strange, sunny Duck-Duck and a chance for a new start.

Born in the backseat of a moving car, Carmel Fishkill was unceremoniously pushed into a world that refuses to offer her security, stability, love. At age thirteen, she begins to fight back. Carmel Fishkill becomes Fishkill Carmel, who deflects her tormenters with a strong left hook and conceals her secrets from teachers and social workers. But Fishkill’s fierce defenses falter when she meets eccentric optimist Duck-Duck Farina, and soon they, along with Duck-Duck’s mother, Molly, form a tentative family, even as Fishkill struggles to understand her place in it. This fragile new beginning is threatened by the reappearance of Fishkill’s unstable mother — and by unfathomable tragedy. Poet Ruth Lehrer’s young adult debut is a stunning, revelatory look at what defines and sustains “family.” And, just as it does for Fishkill, meeting Duck-Duck Farina and her mother will leave readers forever changed.

About the Author

Ruth Lehrer is a poet, author, and American Sign Language interpreter. She lives in the woods of western Massachusetts.