Title: The porcupine of truth
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.
Subjects: Young adult fiction, Dysfunctional families, African American teenage girls, Friendship, Juvenile fiction, Family problems, Bildungsromans, Fiction, African Americans, Alcoholism, Children of alcoholics, Family, Multigenerational, Social Themes, Family life, LGBTQ young adult, Stonewall Book Awards, JUVENILE FICTION, Children's fiction, Girls, fiction, Friendship, fiction, Family, fiction, Alcoholism, fiction, African americans, fiction, Montana, fiction, collection:mike_morgan_larry_romans_childrens_young_adult_literature_award=winner
Places: Billings, Montana, Billings (Mont.)