Author: Karen J. Bun
Publisher: Bluesource and Friends
ISBN: 9781646154609
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Can You Solve This? I am in every city in the world. I am in every hotel in the world. I am in every hotel room in the world. Just in case. Though mostly ignored, I remain, just in case. What am I? Karen's Brain Teasers: Riddles, Lateral Thinking and Logic Puzzles That Destroy Brain Cells is packed with puzzles, fun facts, word quizzes to challenge your brain. From the cavemen to present day text messages, humans have been playing games, solving puzzles and challenging assumptions. What happened here? How did that get there? Who did it? What comes next? Such is the nature of logic puzzles, and this book will provide you with plenty to occupy your mind. Among the logic puzzles awaiting your brain are: Things that have gone missing - and things that have strangely appeared Things that turn up in strange places - how did they get there? Strange coincidences Things that don't go together - and things that do Stories with all sorts of details that call on you to figure out what happened Have fun breaking the code behind: The world-famous traveling cellist The goings on at a corporate conference The strange rituals of friends How friends trade cars to Uber and make ends meet Cryptic text messages If you like to challenge your brain, then click on the "BUY NOW" button now.
Karen's Brain Teasers
Author: Karen J. Bun
Publisher: Bluesource and Friends
ISBN: 9781646154609
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Can You Solve This? I am in every city in the world. I am in every hotel in the world. I am in every hotel room in the world. Just in case. Though mostly ignored, I remain, just in case. What am I? Karen's Brain Teasers: Riddles, Lateral Thinking and Logic Puzzles That Destroy Brain Cells is packed with puzzles, fun facts, word quizzes to challenge your brain. From the cavemen to present day text messages, humans have been playing games, solving puzzles and challenging assumptions. What happened here? How did that get there? Who did it? What comes next? Such is the nature of logic puzzles, and this book will provide you with plenty to occupy your mind. Among the logic puzzles awaiting your brain are: Things that have gone missing - and things that have strangely appeared Things that turn up in strange places - how did they get there? Strange coincidences Things that don't go together - and things that do Stories with all sorts of details that call on you to figure out what happened Have fun breaking the code behind: The world-famous traveling cellist The goings on at a corporate conference The strange rituals of friends How friends trade cars to Uber and make ends meet Cryptic text messages If you like to challenge your brain, then click on the "BUY NOW" button now.
Publisher: Bluesource and Friends
ISBN: 9781646154609
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Can You Solve This? I am in every city in the world. I am in every hotel in the world. I am in every hotel room in the world. Just in case. Though mostly ignored, I remain, just in case. What am I? Karen's Brain Teasers: Riddles, Lateral Thinking and Logic Puzzles That Destroy Brain Cells is packed with puzzles, fun facts, word quizzes to challenge your brain. From the cavemen to present day text messages, humans have been playing games, solving puzzles and challenging assumptions. What happened here? How did that get there? Who did it? What comes next? Such is the nature of logic puzzles, and this book will provide you with plenty to occupy your mind. Among the logic puzzles awaiting your brain are: Things that have gone missing - and things that have strangely appeared Things that turn up in strange places - how did they get there? Strange coincidences Things that don't go together - and things that do Stories with all sorts of details that call on you to figure out what happened Have fun breaking the code behind: The world-famous traveling cellist The goings on at a corporate conference The strange rituals of friends How friends trade cars to Uber and make ends meet Cryptic text messages If you like to challenge your brain, then click on the "BUY NOW" button now.
The Book of Karen
Author: Karen K. Klaren
Publisher: BenBella Books
ISBN: 1953295452
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Mazes Activities Games And more . . . ! Karen and Kevin demand a lot these days. From speaking to a manager to seeing birth certificates to requiring permits to sell lemonade, there's no 911 call they won't make, no social norm nor grace today's put-upon white person won't upend, in an effort to exercise and maintain their privilege. The Book of Karen: An Activity Book for Reactionary Adults demands only one thing: you laugh at them. Filled with the kinds of stickers, brain teasers, word searches, crossword puzzles, riddles, connect-the-dots, crafts, fill-in-the-blanks, and prompts found in any traditional adult activity book, The Book of Karen subverts and parodies the genre by highlighting the horrible behaviors of the entitled women and men whose videoed and memed behaviors would be comical were they not so condemnable. As much an activity book as as it is as call to action, The Book of Karen contains a comprehensive and useful list of anti-Karen nonprofits, especially those focusing on social justice, voting rights, pay equity, LGBTQIA rights, immigration, hunger and food instability, disability services, and victim's rights to raise awareness and for readers to support, learn more about, and work with to fight the status quo. A portion of the proceeds from The Book of Karen will directly go to benefit The Equal Justice Initiative, a non-profit committee working to end mass incarceration and excessive punishment, challenging racial and economic injustice, and protecting the basic human rights for the most vulnerable Americans.
Publisher: BenBella Books
ISBN: 1953295452
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Mazes Activities Games And more . . . ! Karen and Kevin demand a lot these days. From speaking to a manager to seeing birth certificates to requiring permits to sell lemonade, there's no 911 call they won't make, no social norm nor grace today's put-upon white person won't upend, in an effort to exercise and maintain their privilege. The Book of Karen: An Activity Book for Reactionary Adults demands only one thing: you laugh at them. Filled with the kinds of stickers, brain teasers, word searches, crossword puzzles, riddles, connect-the-dots, crafts, fill-in-the-blanks, and prompts found in any traditional adult activity book, The Book of Karen subverts and parodies the genre by highlighting the horrible behaviors of the entitled women and men whose videoed and memed behaviors would be comical were they not so condemnable. As much an activity book as as it is as call to action, The Book of Karen contains a comprehensive and useful list of anti-Karen nonprofits, especially those focusing on social justice, voting rights, pay equity, LGBTQIA rights, immigration, hunger and food instability, disability services, and victim's rights to raise awareness and for readers to support, learn more about, and work with to fight the status quo. A portion of the proceeds from The Book of Karen will directly go to benefit The Equal Justice Initiative, a non-profit committee working to end mass incarceration and excessive punishment, challenging racial and economic injustice, and protecting the basic human rights for the most vulnerable Americans.
Jack Was Kind
Author: Tracy Thorne
Publisher: Samuel French, Incorporated
ISBN: 9780573709166
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
This intimate, confessional story examines long-seated issues of privilege and complicity at the core of America, as well as our current and explosive political moment. Jack Was Kind gives an imagined and painfully human backstory to an actual, American event that will affect the country for generations to come. "Nerve-racking ... the portrait of a woman spectacularly ill-informed about herself is at times devastating." - Jesse Green, The New York Times "This is a play about complicity - about wives who tend to their husbands' honor even when they are violent, or otherwise dangerous. But it's also about the social conditioning that taught those women, when they were girls, to put the menfolk first." - Laura Collins-Hughes, The New York Times "Devastating ... Thorne probes the nature of an unfortunately confused wife's challenge on where she places her loyalty to erring husband Jack and to teenagers Flo and Eli. Within that conundrum is the societal question of a wife's (sacred?) obligation to a husband, no matter what she knows, or suspects, he's done." - NY Stage Review
Publisher: Samuel French, Incorporated
ISBN: 9780573709166
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
This intimate, confessional story examines long-seated issues of privilege and complicity at the core of America, as well as our current and explosive political moment. Jack Was Kind gives an imagined and painfully human backstory to an actual, American event that will affect the country for generations to come. "Nerve-racking ... the portrait of a woman spectacularly ill-informed about herself is at times devastating." - Jesse Green, The New York Times "This is a play about complicity - about wives who tend to their husbands' honor even when they are violent, or otherwise dangerous. But it's also about the social conditioning that taught those women, when they were girls, to put the menfolk first." - Laura Collins-Hughes, The New York Times "Devastating ... Thorne probes the nature of an unfortunately confused wife's challenge on where she places her loyalty to erring husband Jack and to teenagers Flo and Eli. Within that conundrum is the societal question of a wife's (sacred?) obligation to a husband, no matter what she knows, or suspects, he's done." - NY Stage Review
Miss Burma
Author: Charmaine Craig
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 0802189520
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
“Craig wields powerful and vivid prose to illuminate a country and a family trapped not only by war and revolution, but also by desire and loss.” —Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Miss Burma tells the story of modern-day Burma through the eyes of Benny and Khin, husband and wife, and their daughter Louisa. After attending school in Calcutta, Benny settles in Rangoon, then part of the British Empire, and falls in love with Khin, a woman who is part of a long-persecuted ethnic minority group, the Karen. World War II comes to Southeast Asia, and Benny and Khin must go into hiding in the eastern part of the country during the Japanese occupation, beginning a journey that will lead them to change the country’s history. Years later, Benny and Khin’s eldest child, Louisa, has a danger-filled, tempestuous childhood and reaches prominence as Burma’s first beauty queen soon before the country falls to dictatorship. As Louisa navigates her newfound fame, she is forced to reckon with her family’s past, the West’s ongoing covert dealings in her country, and her own loyalty to the cause of the Karen people. Based on the story of the author’s mother and grandparents, Miss Burma is a captivating portrait of how modern Burma came to be and of the ordinary people swept up in the struggle for self-determination and freedom. “At once beautiful and heartbreaking . . . An incredible family saga.” —Refinery29 “Miss Burma charts both a political history and a deeply personal one—and of those incendiary moments when private and public motivations overlap.” —Los Angeles Times
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 0802189520
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
“Craig wields powerful and vivid prose to illuminate a country and a family trapped not only by war and revolution, but also by desire and loss.” —Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Miss Burma tells the story of modern-day Burma through the eyes of Benny and Khin, husband and wife, and their daughter Louisa. After attending school in Calcutta, Benny settles in Rangoon, then part of the British Empire, and falls in love with Khin, a woman who is part of a long-persecuted ethnic minority group, the Karen. World War II comes to Southeast Asia, and Benny and Khin must go into hiding in the eastern part of the country during the Japanese occupation, beginning a journey that will lead them to change the country’s history. Years later, Benny and Khin’s eldest child, Louisa, has a danger-filled, tempestuous childhood and reaches prominence as Burma’s first beauty queen soon before the country falls to dictatorship. As Louisa navigates her newfound fame, she is forced to reckon with her family’s past, the West’s ongoing covert dealings in her country, and her own loyalty to the cause of the Karen people. Based on the story of the author’s mother and grandparents, Miss Burma is a captivating portrait of how modern Burma came to be and of the ordinary people swept up in the struggle for self-determination and freedom. “At once beautiful and heartbreaking . . . An incredible family saga.” —Refinery29 “Miss Burma charts both a political history and a deeply personal one—and of those incendiary moments when private and public motivations overlap.” —Los Angeles Times
Karen's Unicorn Knock Knock Jokes
Author: Karen J Bun
Publisher: Han Global Trading Pte Limited
ISBN: 9781702915809
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Looking A Gift For Children? Knock, knock! Who's there? Dog. Dog who? Did you know that dogs like unicorns too? ---------------------------------------------------- Knock, knock! Who's there? Demand. Demand who? This unicorn demands a hug and kiss from you. ---------------------------------------------------- Karen's Unicorn Knock Knock Jokes: The Magical Door That Spurts Rainbow Endlessly is the perfect gift for girls that are fascinated and obsessed with unicorns! Filled with hundreds of "Unicorn Knock Knock" jokes, this book is guaranteed to provide countless hours of joy and entertainment for children. Unicorns have long since been the favorite of little girls and teenagers everywhere, and a lot of people have fallen in love with the magical realms of wonder unicorns represent. They represent the worlds that our imaginations can lead us to and endless possibilities of the magical and wondrous things that we can see and learn about. This book covers a variety of topics with our unicorn jokes to make kids laugh out loud and have fun while reading, which is a win-win situation on both accounts. This also helps children who don't necessarily like reading. Most children like to read things that make them laugh and get them interested, which is why we have funny unicorn jokes in this book. P.S. Some parents give these away as birthday favors during children parties too! Begin The Rainbow Journey By Clicking On The "BUY NOW" Button!
Publisher: Han Global Trading Pte Limited
ISBN: 9781702915809
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Looking A Gift For Children? Knock, knock! Who's there? Dog. Dog who? Did you know that dogs like unicorns too? ---------------------------------------------------- Knock, knock! Who's there? Demand. Demand who? This unicorn demands a hug and kiss from you. ---------------------------------------------------- Karen's Unicorn Knock Knock Jokes: The Magical Door That Spurts Rainbow Endlessly is the perfect gift for girls that are fascinated and obsessed with unicorns! Filled with hundreds of "Unicorn Knock Knock" jokes, this book is guaranteed to provide countless hours of joy and entertainment for children. Unicorns have long since been the favorite of little girls and teenagers everywhere, and a lot of people have fallen in love with the magical realms of wonder unicorns represent. They represent the worlds that our imaginations can lead us to and endless possibilities of the magical and wondrous things that we can see and learn about. This book covers a variety of topics with our unicorn jokes to make kids laugh out loud and have fun while reading, which is a win-win situation on both accounts. This also helps children who don't necessarily like reading. Most children like to read things that make them laugh and get them interested, which is why we have funny unicorn jokes in this book. P.S. Some parents give these away as birthday favors during children parties too! Begin The Rainbow Journey By Clicking On The "BUY NOW" Button!
Scriptwriting for Film, Television and New Media
Author: Alan Hueth
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429866488
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
What are the foundations of scriptwriting? Why do some scripts gain more prestige than others? How do you write a script and get it noticed? Scriptwriting for Film, Television and New Media answers these questions and more, offering a comprehensive introduction to writing scripts for film, television, the Internet, and interactive multimedia. Author Alan C. Hueth explains not just how to write, but how to think and apply the fundamental principles of screenwriting to multiple platforms and genres. This includes chapters on numerous script formats, including drama and comedy in film and TV, short films, commercials and PSAs, news and sports, interview shows, documentaries, reality shows, and corporate and educational media, including interactive multimedia. This book also addresses legal and ethical issues, how to become a professional scriptwriter, and a section on production language that provides helpful explanations of how camera, locations, visual and audio effects combine on screen to engage and sustain viewer attention, and, consequently, how to improve scriptwriting technique. The book features numerous case studies and detailed examples, including chapter by chapter exercises, plot diagrams, quick-look and learn tables that assist readers to quickly understand genre related script elements, and in-depth script close-ups to examine precisely how writers utilize the principles and elements of drama to create a successful script. It is also supported by a comprehensive companion website with further case studies, assignments, video clips, and examples of films and programs discussed in the book. Scriptwriting for Film, Television, and New Media is ideal for aspiring scriptwriters and anyone wanting to broaden their understanding of how successful scripts are created.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429866488
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
What are the foundations of scriptwriting? Why do some scripts gain more prestige than others? How do you write a script and get it noticed? Scriptwriting for Film, Television and New Media answers these questions and more, offering a comprehensive introduction to writing scripts for film, television, the Internet, and interactive multimedia. Author Alan C. Hueth explains not just how to write, but how to think and apply the fundamental principles of screenwriting to multiple platforms and genres. This includes chapters on numerous script formats, including drama and comedy in film and TV, short films, commercials and PSAs, news and sports, interview shows, documentaries, reality shows, and corporate and educational media, including interactive multimedia. This book also addresses legal and ethical issues, how to become a professional scriptwriter, and a section on production language that provides helpful explanations of how camera, locations, visual and audio effects combine on screen to engage and sustain viewer attention, and, consequently, how to improve scriptwriting technique. The book features numerous case studies and detailed examples, including chapter by chapter exercises, plot diagrams, quick-look and learn tables that assist readers to quickly understand genre related script elements, and in-depth script close-ups to examine precisely how writers utilize the principles and elements of drama to create a successful script. It is also supported by a comprehensive companion website with further case studies, assignments, video clips, and examples of films and programs discussed in the book. Scriptwriting for Film, Television, and New Media is ideal for aspiring scriptwriters and anyone wanting to broaden their understanding of how successful scripts are created.
Cyclopedia Exotica
Author: Aminder Dhaliwal
Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly
ISBN: 1770465375
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
“The characters in Dhaliwal’s stories sparkle. They’re tenderly rendered and their problems are real... The struggle of the cyclops unfolds in metaphors for race, sexuality, gender, and disability, tangling with ideas about fetishization, interracial relationships, passing, and representation.“—Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the Dream House Following the critical and popular success of Woman World—the hit Instagram comic which appeared on 25 best of lists—Aminder Dhaliwal returns with Cyclopedia Exotica. Also serialized on instagram to her 250,000 followers, this graphic novel showcases Dhaliwal’s quick wit and astute socio-cultural criticism. In Cyclopedia Exotica, doctor’s office waiting rooms, commercials, dog parks, and dating app screenshots capture the experiences and interior lives of the cyclops community; a largely immigrant population displaying physical differences from the majority. Whether they’re artists, parents, or yoga students, the cyclops have it tough: they face microaggressions and overt xenophobia on a daily basis. However, they are bent on finding love, cultivating community, and navigating life alongside the two-eyed majority with patience and the occasional bout of rage. Through this parallel universe, Dhaliwal comments on race, difference, beauty, and belonging, touching on all of these issues with her distinctive deadpan humour steeped in millennial references. Cyclopedia Exotica is a triumph of hilarious candor.
Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly
ISBN: 1770465375
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
“The characters in Dhaliwal’s stories sparkle. They’re tenderly rendered and their problems are real... The struggle of the cyclops unfolds in metaphors for race, sexuality, gender, and disability, tangling with ideas about fetishization, interracial relationships, passing, and representation.“—Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the Dream House Following the critical and popular success of Woman World—the hit Instagram comic which appeared on 25 best of lists—Aminder Dhaliwal returns with Cyclopedia Exotica. Also serialized on instagram to her 250,000 followers, this graphic novel showcases Dhaliwal’s quick wit and astute socio-cultural criticism. In Cyclopedia Exotica, doctor’s office waiting rooms, commercials, dog parks, and dating app screenshots capture the experiences and interior lives of the cyclops community; a largely immigrant population displaying physical differences from the majority. Whether they’re artists, parents, or yoga students, the cyclops have it tough: they face microaggressions and overt xenophobia on a daily basis. However, they are bent on finding love, cultivating community, and navigating life alongside the two-eyed majority with patience and the occasional bout of rage. Through this parallel universe, Dhaliwal comments on race, difference, beauty, and belonging, touching on all of these issues with her distinctive deadpan humour steeped in millennial references. Cyclopedia Exotica is a triumph of hilarious candor.
Social Q's
Author: Philip Galanes
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 145160579X
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
A series of whimsical essays by the New York Times "Social Q's" columnist provides modern advice on navigating today's murky moral waters, sharing recommendations for such everyday situations as texting on the bus to splitting a dinner check.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 145160579X
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
A series of whimsical essays by the New York Times "Social Q's" columnist provides modern advice on navigating today's murky moral waters, sharing recommendations for such everyday situations as texting on the bus to splitting a dinner check.
Our Country Friends
Author: Gary Shteyngart
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1984855131
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, Financial Times, The Washington Post, Time, Los Angeles Times, New York Post, Town & Country, Good Housekeeping, Kirkus Reviews “A perfect novel for these times and all times, the single textual artifact from the pandemic era I would place in a time capsule as a representation of all that is good and true and beautiful about literature.”—Molly Young, The New York Times (Editors’ Choice) Eight friends, one country house, and six months in isolation—a novel about love, friendship, family, and betrayal hailed as a “virtuoso performance” (USA Today) and “an homage to Chekhov with four romances and a finale that will break your heart” (The Washington Post) In the rolling hills of upstate New York, a group of friends and friends-of-friends gathers in a country house to wait out the pandemic. Over the next six months, new friendships and romances will take hold, while old betrayals will emerge, forcing each character to reevaluate whom they love and what matters most. The unlikely cast of characters includes a Russian-born novelist; his Russian-born psychiatrist wife; their precocious child obsessed with K-pop; a struggling Indian American writer; a wildly successful Korean American app developer; a global dandy with three passports; a Southern flamethrower of an essayist; and a movie star, the Actor, whose arrival upsets the equilibrium of this chosen family. Both elegiac and very, very funny, Our Country Friends is the most ambitious book yet by the author of the beloved bestseller Super Sad True Love Story.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1984855131
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, Financial Times, The Washington Post, Time, Los Angeles Times, New York Post, Town & Country, Good Housekeeping, Kirkus Reviews “A perfect novel for these times and all times, the single textual artifact from the pandemic era I would place in a time capsule as a representation of all that is good and true and beautiful about literature.”—Molly Young, The New York Times (Editors’ Choice) Eight friends, one country house, and six months in isolation—a novel about love, friendship, family, and betrayal hailed as a “virtuoso performance” (USA Today) and “an homage to Chekhov with four romances and a finale that will break your heart” (The Washington Post) In the rolling hills of upstate New York, a group of friends and friends-of-friends gathers in a country house to wait out the pandemic. Over the next six months, new friendships and romances will take hold, while old betrayals will emerge, forcing each character to reevaluate whom they love and what matters most. The unlikely cast of characters includes a Russian-born novelist; his Russian-born psychiatrist wife; their precocious child obsessed with K-pop; a struggling Indian American writer; a wildly successful Korean American app developer; a global dandy with three passports; a Southern flamethrower of an essayist; and a movie star, the Actor, whose arrival upsets the equilibrium of this chosen family. Both elegiac and very, very funny, Our Country Friends is the most ambitious book yet by the author of the beloved bestseller Super Sad True Love Story.
Brewster: A Novel
Author: Mark Slouka
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393240517
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
"Intense and elegiac…devastatingly agile." —New York Times Book Review The year is 1968. The world is changing, and sixteen-year-old Jon Mosher is determined to change with it. Racked by guilt over his older brother’s childhood death and stuck in the dead-end town of Brewster, New York, he turns his rage into victories running track. Meanwhile, Ray Cappicciano, a rebel as gifted with his fists as Jon is with his feet, is trying to take care of his baby brother while staying out of the way of his abusive, ex-cop father. When Jon and Ray form a tight friendship, they find in each other everything they lack at home, but it’s not until Ray falls in love with beautiful, headstrong Karen Dorsey that the three friends begin to dream of breaking away from Brewster for good. Freedom, however, has its price. As forces beyond their control begin to bear down on them, Jon sets off on the race of his life—a race to redeem his past and save them all. Mark Slouka's work has been called "relentlessly observant, miraculously expressive" (New York Times Book Review). Reverberating with compassion, heartache, and grace, Brewster is an unforgettable coming-of-age story from one of our most compelling novelists. A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice A Washington Post Notable Book of 2013 A Barron’s Favorite Book of the Year, selected by Daniel Woodrell A Booklist Best Adult Books for Young Adults Editor’s Choice 2013
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393240517
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
"Intense and elegiac…devastatingly agile." —New York Times Book Review The year is 1968. The world is changing, and sixteen-year-old Jon Mosher is determined to change with it. Racked by guilt over his older brother’s childhood death and stuck in the dead-end town of Brewster, New York, he turns his rage into victories running track. Meanwhile, Ray Cappicciano, a rebel as gifted with his fists as Jon is with his feet, is trying to take care of his baby brother while staying out of the way of his abusive, ex-cop father. When Jon and Ray form a tight friendship, they find in each other everything they lack at home, but it’s not until Ray falls in love with beautiful, headstrong Karen Dorsey that the three friends begin to dream of breaking away from Brewster for good. Freedom, however, has its price. As forces beyond their control begin to bear down on them, Jon sets off on the race of his life—a race to redeem his past and save them all. Mark Slouka's work has been called "relentlessly observant, miraculously expressive" (New York Times Book Review). Reverberating with compassion, heartache, and grace, Brewster is an unforgettable coming-of-age story from one of our most compelling novelists. A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice A Washington Post Notable Book of 2013 A Barron’s Favorite Book of the Year, selected by Daniel Woodrell A Booklist Best Adult Books for Young Adults Editor’s Choice 2013