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Saints of the household

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.

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Main Author: Tison, Ari (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2023.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Brothers > Young adult fiction.
Violence > Young adult fiction.
Fathers and sons > Young adult fiction.
Costa Rican Americans > Young adult fiction.
Bribri Indians > Young adult fiction.
Indians of Central America > Costa Rica > Young adult fiction.
Indigenous peoples > Costa Rica > Young adult fiction.
Behavior > Young adult fiction.
Domestic fiction > Young adult.
Social problem fiction > Young adult.
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:312 pages ; 22 cm
Audience:Ages 14-18.
Grades 10-12.
ISBN:9780374389499
0374389497
Author Notes: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.

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