The porcupine of truth
About this book
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
- african americans
- african americans, fiction
- african american teenage girls
- alcoholism
- alcoholism, fiction
- bildungsromans
- children of alcoholics
- children's fiction
- collection:mike_morgan_larry_romans_childrens_young_adult_literature_award=winner
- dysfunctional families
- family
- family, fiction
- family life
- family problems
- fiction
- friendship
- friendship, fiction
- girls, fiction
- juvenile fiction
- lgbtq young adult
- montana, fiction
- multigenerational
- social themes
- stonewall book awards
- young adult fiction