![]() ![]() It’s a raw, harrowing story: A young girl is out with friends at a southern California beach, meets some surfers, shares an illicit and thrilling beer, says yes to their invitation to a party - and then discovers, in ways increasingly horrifying, what the young men there take and take and take that yes to mean." - Michael GriffithĪbout the Author: Susann Cokal’s novels are Mirabilis, Breath and Bones, and The Kingdom of Little Wounds, which won several awards, including a 2014 Printz Honor from the American Library Association. ![]() Last night, for instance, poling through this brief piece of perhaps four thousand words took five sittings - or, rather, unsittings, since again and again I found myself wandering the house in a fever of empathetic anguish. “Susann Cokal’s “Fourteen Shakes the Baby” compels me through its pages in a way that’s both profoundly uncomfortable and unlike my usual mode of reading. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |