Maggie De Vries

Rabbit Ears

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Kaya, who is adopted and multiracial, has just been released from a Youth Detention Centre and is carrying a painful secret: she was sexually abused by a neighbor for years. Kaya keeps away, repeatedly disappearing into a life of sex work and addiction. Meanwhile, her sister, Beth, uses food and a rediscovered love of magic tricks to escape her own troubles. Though both girls struggle through darkness and pain, they eventually find their way towards a moment of illumination and healing.This powerful YA novel is rooted in the tragic life of the author's sister, Sarah-a victim of serial killer Robert Pickton and the subject of Maggie de Vries's… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-06-233290-5
EAN: 9780062332905
Produktnummer: 15837287
Verlag: Harper Collins (US)
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Seitenangabe: 288 S.
Sonstiges: Ab 13 J.

Über den Autor

MAGGIE DE VRIES’s novel, Hunger Journeys, won the Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize and was called “historical fiction at its best” by CM magazine. She has written seven other works for young readers, as well as Missing Sarah, a memoir about her sister, a victim of serial killer Robert Pickton, which was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award. A former children’s book editor and a writer-in-residence for the Vancouver Public Library, she now focuses on her own writing and teaches creative writing at the University of British Columbia and. She lives in Vancouver.