Atticus Lish
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2021.
Physical Desc
viii, 441 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"Corey Goltz is fifteen years old when his mother, Gloria, is diagnosed with ALS. Estranged from his father, and increasingly responsible for meeting both his mother's needs and his own, Corey is determined to be the hero Gloria needs - at any cost. But when his father Leonard re-enters the picture, Corey's beliefs - about honor and love, duty and devotion, and the uses and misuses of power - are sorely tested. Charismatic and cruel, Leonard is a...
Author
Publisher
Tyrant Books
Pub. Date
c2014.
Physical Desc
417 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Zou Lei, a Chinese Muslim of the Uighur tribe, enters the U.S. via Mexico, and makes her way to New York City. Keeping a low profile and employed in a restaurant, she meets Skinner, a veteran of the Iraqi war, who's afflicted with PTSD.