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My abandonment / Peter Rock.
Van Pelt Library PS3568.O327 M9 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rock, Peter, 1967-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Teenage girls--Fiction.
- Fathers and daughters--Fiction.
- Fathers and daughters.
- Wilderness areas.
- Homeless families.
- Homeless families--Fiction.
- Survival--Fiction.
- Survival.
- Forest Park (Portland, Or.)--Fiction.
- Wilderness areas--Northwest, Pacific--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 225 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.
- Summary:
- A thirteen-year-old girl and her father live in Forest Park, the enormous nature preserve in Portland, Oregon. There they inhabit an elaborate cave shelter, bathe in a nearby creek, store perishables at the water's edge, use a makeshift septic system, tend a garden, even keep a library of sorts. Once a week, they go to the city to buy groceries and otherwise merge with the civilized world. But one small mistake allows a backcountry jogger to discover them, which derails their entire existence, ultimately provoking a deeper flight. Inspired by a true story and told through the startlingly sincere voice of a young narrator, Caroline, Peter Rock's My Abandonment is a riveting journey into life at the margins, and a mesmerizing tale of survival and hope.
- ISBN:
- 9780151014149
- 0151014140
- 9780156035521
- 0156035529
- OCLC:
- 180080934
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