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When fourteen-year old Fish Becker is sent to spend the summer with family friends while his parents try to revive their marriage, he is thrown into a tangled world of midnight rituals and excess
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Fish Becker dreads the summer ahead. His parents plan to ship him off to Oregon to stay with family friends, the Lamberts, while they try to rekindle their marriage in Europe. Ugh. Only boredom will spring from this hair-brained plan, he thinks. As it turns out, he's never been so wrong. Almost immediately he falls head-first into the Lamberts' enchanting world. He becomes dizzy with their eccentricities, indulges in midnight passions and other excesses, and tangles himself in the family's past and odd relationships, which feel as confusing as their overgrown garden. Somewhere during his mysterious summer, Fish Becker slips away from his childhood and arrives closer to adulthood. This deeply textured coming-of-age tale, told in what Publishers Weekly calls "Borofka's vivid, humble word pictures," was published for an adult audience; however, older teens will appreciate the lush descriptions of familiar feelings and Borofka's brilliant conveyance of Fish's awakening.
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David Borofka's stories have earned such awards as the Missouri Review Editors' Prize and Carolina Quarterly's Charles B. Wood Award for Distinguished Writing. His collection, Hints of His Mortality, won the 1996 Iowa Short Fiction Award and was termed wife and two daughters in Clovis, California.
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- PublisherMacadam Cage Pub
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 1878448781
- ISBN 13 9781878448781
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages191
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