num_pages: 304
description: Perfect for fans of Room a heartbreaking but important novel. Real Simple Readers of Jodi Picoult and Liane Moriarty will also like this tenderhearted debut about healing and family narrated by an unforgettable six-year-old boy who reminds us that sometimes the littlest bodies hold the biggest hearts and the quietest voices speak the loudest. Squeezed into a coat closet with his classmates and teacher first grader Zach Taylor can hear gunshots ringing through the halls of his school. A gunman has entered the building taking nineteen lives and irrevocably changing the very fabric of this close-knit community. While Zach's mother pursues a quest for justice against the shooter's parents holding them responsible for their son's actions Zach retreats into his super-secret hideout and loses himself in a world of books and art. Armed with his newfound understanding and with the optimism and stubbornness only a child could have Zach sets out on a captivating journey towards healing and forgiveness determined to help the adults in his life rediscover the universal truths of love and compassion needed to pull them through their darkest hours.
language: English
title: Only Child
publisher: Knopf Publishing Group