Unstoppable Moses
A Novel
فرمت کتاب
audiobook
تاریخ انتشار
2018
نویسنده
Graham Halsteadناشر
Macmillan Audioشابک
9781250300539
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- اطلاعات
- نقد و بررسی
- دیدگاه کاربران
نقد و بررسی
Seventeen-year-old Moses gets caught up in a simple prank that quickly turns into arson with his mischievous cousin. The criminal justice systems assigns him community service: working as a camp counselor for children. Narrator Graham Halstead creates an authentic voice that reflects the raw pain that Moses feels because of his involvement in the crime and the traumatic experience of his cousin being shot by a police officer during their arrest. He struggles to find a way back to normalcy through his camp experience. Listeners will closely follow Moses through his tumultuous journey to redemption as he tries to overcome past mistakes that continue to haunt him. M.D. � AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine
October 8, 2018
The people of Guthrie, Ill., blame high school senior Moses for burning down the local bowling alley, an event that ended with his cousin—his best friend—getting shot by the police. But is Moses really to blame? If so, will he find forgiveness? In this highly introspective debut novel set during the aftermath of a prank gone terribly wrong, Smith persuasively and empathically portrays Moses’s conflicting emotions as he comes to terms with a traumatic event. Instead of going to jail, Moses is sentenced to a one-week camp where he is to be a “buddy” to a group of eight- to 11-year-olds. In a place where no one except the camp director knows about his past, Moses begins to feel like his old self, making friends with the other buddies and mentoring Lump, a bullied girl. But when Moses plays hooky and a child goes missing, his feelings of guilt and shame rise to the surface. Rather than casting judgment, Smith leaves readers to decide the degree of Moses’s culpability. This thought-provoking, gut-wrenching novel presents human nature as it is instead of as it should be. Ages 12–18. Agent: Molly Ker Hawn, The Bent Agency.
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