The Shark Curtain
A Fiction book. Jesus might not think so, but maybe the dead are best...
Winner of the 2016 Paterson Prize for Books for Young People"It's easy to empathize with [Lily]....Throughout, first-time author Scofield creates striking images that will stay with readers."-- Publishers Weekly "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."-- Booklist "Dynamic...[Protagonist Lily Asher] comes to glorious, heartbreaking, embraceable, vibrant life courtesy of the experiences, heart and immense imagination and talent of Eugene author Chris Scofield."-- The Register-Guard "Chris Scofield has written a young adult novel that doesn't compromise integrity for trendiness....It's complex and quirky...there can be...
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- Pages: 356 pages
- ISBN: 9781617753138 / 0
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Jesus might not think so, but maybe the dead are best left that way. Chris Scofield, The Shark Curtain //
The Shark Curtain is an excellent novel. I haven't met a fictional character I like much better than Lily Asher. She is beautiful and different. She, like all of us, has her own reality which is both wonderful and awful. Scofield brilliantly lets us enter that reality. I loved it. I received this as a Goodreads Giveaway and wanted to write a review to thank the author for participating in this. I thought the premise of the story was really interesting and thought it would appeal to a certain group of readers at our high school library. I am sad to say that because it took me quite a while to get truly invested... Set against the changing terrain of middle-class values and the siren calls of art and puberty, The Shark Curtain 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...
