Title: Suckerpunch
Description: It's the summer before senior year, and Marcus should be hanging out, filling his sketchbook, maybe asking a girl out for once. So why is he in a car with his brother, his brother's girl, and the pistol, headed straight toward his dad?David Hernandez writes with striking lyricism and unfaltering poise. Suckerpunch marks the debut of a superb and important new literary talent.
Subjects: Fiction, Juvenile Fiction, Hispanic Americans, Child abuse, Brothers, Drug abuse, Fathers and sons, Family life