- Country life, Self-actualization (Psychology), Friendship, Fiction
The son of a Pentecostal preacher faces his personal demons as he and his two outcast friends try to make it through their senior year of high school in rural Forrestville, Tennessee without letting the small-town culture destroy their creative spirits and sense of self.
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Contemporary, classical in form, earnest and grave.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Jeff Zentner
- First published
- 2016
- Pages
- 384
- Publisher
- Ember, Random House Children's Books, Andersen Press
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780399554360
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