Category: Coming Of Age Fiction

In 12 hours, your existence may perhaps switch perpetually, as Zizi discovers. at the evening previous his pupil consultant Council presidential manifesto, and never for the 1st time, Zizi bodily abuses his dishonest female friend, Pamodi. yet Pamodi flees.

During an evening that seems to be the longest in Zizi’s reminiscence, rather than writing the manifesto speech, the reader follows the anxiety-stricken baby-kisser in his race opposed to time and canopy of the evening, as he searches the campus for his lacking female friend. whereas Zizi is haunted through the phobia that Pamodi may perhaps reveal him for what he quite is, without end harmful his pristine snapshot because the favorite presidential candidate, Pamodi evades detection, and is nowhere to be came upon.

In the morning, the speech he can provide isn't whatever an individual can have anticipated from an SRC megastar: it's a litany of confessions for his questionable integrity and violence. As Zizi’s phrases fade, and a feeling of concern lingers within the air, he's confronted with the truth of his activities; as they realize that they might vote a hugely incorrect guy into workplace, how will those scholars vote? what's going to it suggest, both way?

With an undercurrent of anger and now and then irreverent darkish humor, The a long way Away is a relocating tale of determined searches for moment possibilities as a tender guy recollects a tricky time in his prior while he struggled to house a brother's difficulties, a lady he concept he enjoyed and the choices made. the necessity to get away, the pull to come, drifting round the kingdom, the violence and tenderness -- Now it is coming again for him to accommodate, even if he desires to or no longer. And he is studying that remembering isn't the toughest part.

“Honor Molloy makes a so much memorable debut with this fiercely humorous portrait of the artist as a tender woman. besides being a smarty lady, Noleen O'Feeney is irreverent, sarcastic, resilient, enticing, wonderful, and clever past her years. i did not wish this publication to finish. Bravo, Ms. Molloy! Encore!”
―Peter Quinn, Banished little ones of Eve and seeking out Jimmy

An autobiographical novel set in Nineteen Sixties eire, this impossible to resist debut follows the increase and fall of the O’Feeney kin, as obvious during the eyes of a precocious little lady. extra savage than civilized, Noleen is an extraordinary personality from a Dublin lengthy forgotten, the place Nelson’s Pillar nonetheless stands in O’Connell Street―but no longer for long―and the place untamed musicians assemble within the O’Feeneys’ kitchen to elevate a jar and the roof. Noleen’s father, a profitable actor and scoundrel king of the town, does his top to damage his relations, whereas her mom attempts to reserve it. Noleen schemes to make it via every one Dublin day, cadging candies and turning out to be tricky in the middle of chaos. Can a fierce girl’s robust mind's eye carry her kinfolk jointly, secure as ducks within the sky, of their domestic on Tolka Row?

“As the daughter of 1 of Dublin’s such a lot recognized and well-loved actors, Honor Molloy introduces us to the legendary period in Dublin’s heritage the place drama and storytelling took priority over the customarily harsh fact of lifestyles in Sixties Ireland.”–Kate Kerrigan, Ellis Island

“I have visible and heard many practice their written paintings over the past 40 years, however it is straightforward to assert that Honor Molloy, at the web page or in individual, is without doubt one of the best possible i've got ever experienced.”
–Stanley Crouch, fiction and non-fiction author, critic, syndicated columnist

it's a time of ideal minds in ideal our bodies. each point of existence is managed by means of committees and councils. Into this society of pristine commitment and perfection, into this post-America kind democracy calling itself the “brotherhood”, Rolun is born.
The 3rd in line of the rich and strong Jarvis pharmaceutical dynasty, the seventeen-year outdated Rolun Jarvis, on the age of passage, is rendered sterile. A genetic flaw makes her bad as a progenitor. She accepts this end result of her actual imperfection simply because she is in track with the “mindset” of the days: the ideal brain within the ideal physique, existence for the advantage of community.
by surprise, Rolun is made a candidate to the excessive Council of the area physique of Governing Democracies. it's the so much mystery or mystery councils; notwithstanding many applicants are chosen, few serve. Dennis Samson, her eighty-six yr outdated “guardian” to the council will consultant her profession for the following six years as she is going via indoctrination university and directly to her transitority group provider activity as an army teacher. Early on, she involves detect not just is she being ostracized from the society to which she is spiritually dedicated, yet there are strong forces at paintings motive on destroying either her and her father. via a fight now not of her identifying, notwithstanding fears rooted in her desire for romance, Rolun turns into the paragon of her times.

Fourteen-year-old Adam turns out unusual to Lisa; he claims to be an alien from planet Vega-X. while Adam invitations Lisa to his mountaintop domestic to work out the distance pill that introduced him to earth, Lisa is intrigued. A budding photojournalist, Lisa sees attractiveness in his ramshackle cabin and his family’s primitive lifestyle. Their atypical friendship grows into love, yet Adam’s painful prior, and his have to break out from fact, demanding situations their courting.

Reviews:

“Strong, shiny characters mixed with humor and poignancy create an unforgettable love tale, to be learn and re-read.” —Publishers Weekly

“A haunting portrait of human nature.”—The Horn booklet, starred review

“The courting among the adolescents is compelling.”—School Library Journal

About the Author:
Myron Levoy used to be born and raised in long island urban, the place lots of his tales occur. His younger grownup novels usually depict outsiders—often with humor—searching for id and connections, with transforming into perception into their precise selves. Works contain “Alan and Naomi,” “A Shadow Like a Leopard,” “Three Friends,” “Pictures of Adam,” and “Kelly ’n’ Me.”

From award-winning writer Alisha Piercy comes Bunny and Shark, a middle-aged coming-of-age story-cum-shark-adventure that unearths and celebrates women's strength within the trenches. Plunging into the 1st 13 days after the 'bastard' pushes his ex-Playboy spouse 'Bunny' over a cliff within the Caribbean, Bunny and Shark is a myth approximately island survival, and the perils and potentials of being exiled from one's identification.

Literally misplaced at sea, Bunny is fueled via the miracle of getting been stored from sharks via a band of dolphins. And her endured survival is dependent upon her skill to develop into a non secular extension of the panorama: she is the temper of the sea at evening as she swims blindly in it, and the protecting coolness of the jungle through day as she recovers from a lack of limb; the close-walled shelter of the sailboats anchored within the harbour, and the gleaming deck of a plush superyacht whilst, reworked, she makes a effective go back to her former world.

Introducing one of many nice heroines of up to date fiction, Bunny and Shark takes readers on a voyage severe with abandon and illumination, in a narrative that invokes greater than a bit of of magic within the telling.

Anna is an ungainly, self-conscious fourteen-year-old whilst she starts to navigate the treacherous international of highschool. laid low with nervousness and uncertainty, Anna turns out not able to have buddies and make connections. mixed with a harrowing domestic lifestyles, and the stifling expectancies pressured upon her from both sides, she feels that she is a wholly passive determine in her personal life.

As she bargains together with her dysfunctional mom and dad, her brash, convinced sister, tricky and excessive friendships, and a possible romance that's either exciting and terrifying, Anna struggles to forge her personal identification and cut loose from the earlier. Over the process 5 years, from the very commence of highschool to the painful first semester of faculty, Anna needs to try and develop into her personal person.

a tender baby mysteriously reveals himself misplaced and on my own in an unlimited barren region. The Voice inside of his head instructs him to stick with the trail which lies ahead of him, and alongside the best way needs to acquire ten very certain keys. as soon as all ten keys were recovered, he'll locate his manner domestic, if now not, he may well by no means locate his method, and stay misplaced ceaselessly. throughout the trip, he meets many exciting humans, encounters many stumbling blocks and problems, and has to make quite a few well timed and spontaneous judgements. quickly into the search, he befriends an previous lady who wishes his guidance, yet says she understands the way in which. presently thereafter, they meet a leper, whose intentions are visible, he desires to tag alongside. the kid is now seriously confused with the accountability of 2 participants having seen actual obstacles, and who fast strengthen a contemptible resentment for every different. Frustration peaks and the demanding situations develop into doubtless insurmountable. the kid struggles to take care of composure, make the proper offerings, and find the keys. The elusive keys are his in basic terms salvation, and the single wish of discovering his approach domestic. The degree is determined, and the odyssey is ready to begin.

«Divertente maestra del sospetto, Paola Mastrocola mette in guardia contro le idee sbagliate che pretendono di essere le più giuste, contro i sempre nuovi convenzionalismi.»
Lorenzo Mondo, l. a. Stampa

«L’unica nostra scrittrice capace di una comicità deliziosamente coinvolgente.»
Giulia Borgese, Corriere della Sera

Anni Settanta, Stupinigi, dintorni di Torino. Lidia, una ragazza di quindici anni, figlia di un operaio Fiat, abita in una ex scuderia della Palazzina di caccia dei Savoia. Non va più a scuola e aiuta los angeles madre a vendere verdura al mercato. Un giorno appare nel tinello di casa sua un elegante venditore di enciclopedie... E l. a. sua vita cambia: Lidia si mette in testa di diventare un trovatore, di fare come quegli antichi poeti provenzali che amavano donne lontane, forse mai esistite. Così scappa di casa, non in step with fare politica, ma according to cercare l’amore da lontano. Il romanzo, tra il realistico e il paradossale, racconta le avventure e le scoperte di questa ragazza, così distante dalla Storia che le scorre accanto. in keeping with il suo bizzarro amore della lontananza, Lidia attraverserà mezza Italia, finché, alle soglie della maturità, incontrerà il sogno che, forse, non sapeva nemmeno di avere.

«Paola Mastrocola racconta con brio e spigliatezza, ama l. a. poesia e gioca con le parole, onora l. a. virgola e l’ipotassi, cesella i dialoghi.»
Luciano Genta, los angeles Stampa

«Ci si lascia sorprendere dallo snodarsi agile della storia, dalle sue allegre ’impennate’ e allo stesso pace si ammira los angeles leggerezza della scrittura, l. a. sua apparente facilità, il suo rifarsi con sorridente e voluta soavità agli stilemi della narrativa favolistica.»
Margherita Oggero, los angeles Stampa

Als Kirk plötzlich und unerwartet einen short von seiner Exfreundin Franka in seinem Briefkasten findet, ist er verwirrt, geschockt und sauer zugleich. Schließlich ist Franka vor Jahren einfach so abgehauen, ohne Tschüss zu sagen. Und jetzt lädt sie ihn zu sich nach Schweden ein?! Trotz seiner Zweifel und Ängste macht Kirk sich zusammen mit dem leisure der alten Clique auf den Weg nach Norden. Im Gepäck jede Menge Bier, vergessene Erinnerungen, mysteriöse Psychopharmaka und haufenweise Fragen:
Warum ist Franka einfach so verschwunden? Haben wir noch genug Alkohol? was once ist der beste Burzum-Song? Können Menschen sich ändern? Und natürlich ganz wichtig: Hört Franka eigentlich noch Black Metal?

Zwölf Jahre schrieb Mikis Wesensbitter an der Saga um Franka und ihre Freunde. used to be als Fortsetzungsstory im Legacy-Magazin begann, ist nun vollendet: ein combine aus Roadmovie, Lovestory, Beziehungsratgeber und satanischer Komödie.