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The Shark Curtain

Current price: $13.95
The Shark Curtain
The Shark Curtain

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The Shark Curtain

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“It’s easy to empathize with [Lily] . . . . Throughout, first-time author Scofield creates striking images that will stay with readers.” — “This is a painful and poignant story that is not for every reader; but for those ready to deal with complex realistic fiction, it has much to offer.” — —Winner of the 2016 Paterson Prize for Books for Young People Part of Akashic’s Black Sheep YA imprint. Set against the changing terrain of middle-class values and the siren calls of art and puberty, invites us into Lily Asher’s wonderful, terrible world. The older of two girls growing up in suburban Portland, Oregon, in the mid-1960s, her inner life stands in quirky contrast to the loving but dysfunctional world around her. Often misunderstood by her flawed but well-intentioned parents, teenage Lily orbits their tumultuous love affair, embracing what embraces her back: the ghost of her drowned dog, a lost aunt, numbers, shoe boxes, werewolves, rituals, and stories she pens herself (including one about a miscarried sibling she dubs “Frog Boy”). With “regular” visits from a wisecracking Jesus, an affectionate but combative friendship is born—a friendship that strains Lily’s grasp of reality as much as her patience. From the violence of a Peeping Tom and catching Mom in flagrante delicto with the neighbor, to jungles in her closet, butlers under her bed, and barking in public, Lily struggles to balance her family’s expectations with the visions that continue to isolate her.

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