Fresh Reads, Honest reviews, Educator-approved
A devastatingly elegant portrait of a young man navigating sexual awakening in a country that forbids his existence. Moving from a “miracle childhood” to a survivalist boarding school experience, the novel explores the heavy price of silence and the resilience of love.
Nhung and her mother are barely hanging on in the environmental disaster zone that is Mercy, Louisiana. After her father and brother died and the red algae bloomed in the Mississippi River, survival becomes even more difficult.