Saints of the household / Ari Tison.
When brothers Max and Jay help a classmate in trouble, they struggle with the consequences of their violent actions and worry they may be more like their abusive father than they thought, so the brothers turn to their Bribri roots to find their way forward.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780374389499
- Physical Description: 312 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2023.
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Target Audience Note: | Ages 14-18. Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers. Grades 10-12. Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers. |
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Genre: | Novels in verse. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Upper Skagit Library | TIS (Text) | 1016245 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Ari Tison is a Bribri (Indigenous Costa Rican) American and African descended poet and storyteller. Her poems and short works have been published in Yellow Medicine Review, The Under Review, Rock & Sling, and POETRY's first ever edition for children. She was the winner of the 2018 Vaunda Micheaux Nelson award for a BIPOC writer with Lerner Publishing. She currently is on faculty at Hamline University and the annual broadside editor for Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop where she gets to collaborate with the Minnesota Center for the Book Arts to bring incarcerated voices into the world. Saints of the Household is her debut novel.