If where you're going isn't home
Subtitle: Of the world
By: Max Zimmer
Series: If where you're going isn't home -- bk. 2
Publisher: [Max Zimmer]
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Place of publication not identified]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 495
ISBN-13: 9780985448158
Subjects: Racism; Fiction; Mormon teenagers; Young adult fiction; Mormons; Controversial literature; Racisme; Romans, nouvelles; Roman pour jeunes adultes; Ouvrages de controverse
Other titles: Of the world
Description: At sixteen, licensed to drive, armed with his trumpet and a talented band, Shake Tauffler begins to slip the harness of his home and neighborhood to test himself in the raw world of the streets and nightclubs of Salt Lake and its outlying towns. His threatened parents intensify their attacks on his emerging sexual and moral consciousness. Jazz and its negro heroes still define him, but his church takes off its gloves to teach him that in God's eyes Negroes are anything but heroes. The Huck Finn days of Journey are over; this is the rebel Shake, conflicted, torn, haunted by the faceless mystery of never being good enough and a hunger he can't name, roaming the night alone or with his hoodlum pals, looking for refuge in hot cars, chance girls, violence, the cry of his trumpet, the faces of the American night.