There Are Things I Know

The heart-warming and uplifting story of one boy's journey home

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

Av Karen B. Golightly, Karen B Golightly

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'A charming and touching story' —The Big IssueEight year old Pepper sees the world differently from most people. For him, there are things he knows, things he remembers and things other people tell him. He knows his mother's phone number because she once wrote it on his arm when they went to Disneyland.But she isn't here anymore. A man who calls himself 'Uncle Dan' claims that Pepper's mother died. Uncle Dan unexpectedly picked Pepper up during a school field trip, gave him the bad news, and drove him to rural Arkansas. Uncle Dan said they are to live together from now on. But the Pepper isn't convinced. He always found it hard to figure out when people are lying, but he's absolutely certain his mother is alive, and he's going to find her...

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2018-07-11
Mått111 x 178 x 15 mm
Vikt148 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieFairlight Moderns
Antal sidor186
FörlagFairlight Books
ISBN9781912054602

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Karen B. Golightly is an associate professor of English. She received her B.A. from Rhodes College in 1989, her M.F.A. in fiction from the University of Memphis in 1994, and her Ph.D. in 19th century Irish and British literature from Southern Illinois University in 2007. She is extensively published for short fiction and non-fiction, as well as for poetry and photography in many international literary arts journals.

'8-year old Pepper proves a tenacious, resourceful hero in his own drama. Immensely readable and sweetly told' -Marti Leimbach, author of Daniel Isn't Talking'A charming and touching story' -The Big Issue'An engaging, highly readable and skilfully written novella. It generates a fine sense of shadowy jeopardy and builds to a satisfyingly tense climax. In Pepper it has a convincing young narrator who sees the world in his own very distinctive fashion' -Anthony Ferner, author of Inside the Bone Box