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I carried you home / Alan Gibney.

by Gibney, Alan.

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Patrick Crean Editions, 2016.

Teenage boys -- Fiction.

Mothers and sons -- Fiction.

Families -- Fiction.

Traffic accidents -- Fiction

Children -- Death -- Fiction.

Grief -- Fiction.

Coming of age -- Fiction.

9781443444538 (trade pbk.)

241 p. ; 23 cm.

"A single mother of two teenage boys locks herself away in grief over one son’s death in a car accident in which she was the driver, refusing to see her remaining son, Ashe. In one stroke, Ashe has lost both his brother and his mother. He moves into the shed outside her window and over the months, tries a number of ways to coax her from her solitude. Eventually, she leaves her bedroom and takes him on a harrowing journey through Death Valley where he learns about her troubled past and, in the process, tries to come to terms with her. This a confident and haunting novel told from the point of view of a fourteen-year-old boy, a voice that engages us powerfully and compels us to find out how he can possibly come to terms with his terrible loss, his bereaved mother, and make sense of his own conflicted world. I Carried You Home is an emotionally complex and satisfying first novel from a very talented new Canadian literary voice."--From publisher.

Psychological fiction.

Canadian fiction.

Literary fiction.

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