The porcupine of truth
By: Bill Konigsberg
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9780545754927; 9780545648943; 9780545648936
Subjects: Young adult fiction; Dysfunctional families; African American teenage girls; Friendship; Juvenile fiction; Family problems; Bildungsromans; Fiction; African Americans; Alcoholism; Children of alcoholics
Description: Seventeen-year-old Carson Speier is bored of Billings, Montana, and resentful that he has to help his mother take care of his father, a dying alcoholic whom he has not seen in fourteen years--but then he meets Aisha, a beautiful African American girl who has run away from her own difficult family, and together they embark on a journey of discovery that may help them both come to terms with their lives.
Notes: Stonewall Book Award for Young Adult Literature, 2016