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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     More Content       More by this author     Smith, Neil, 1964-     Subjects     Siblings -- Fiction.     Dysfunctional families -- Fiction.     Children of alcoholics -- Fiction.     Life change events -- Fiction.     Coming of age -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Smith, Neil, 1964-       by title:      Jones / Neil Smith....       by call number:      FICTION SMI     Search the Web     Smith, Neil, 1964-     Siblings -- Fiction.     Dysfunctional families -- Fiction.     Children of alcoholics -- Fiction.     Life change events -- Fiction.     Coming of age -- Fiction.       MARC Display

Jones / Neil Smith. by Smith, Neil, 1964- Random House Canada, 2022. Call #: FICTION SMI Subjects Siblings -- Fiction.   Dysfunctional families -- Fiction.   Children of alcoholics -- Fiction.   Life change events -- Fiction.   Coming of age -- Fiction. ISBN:  9781039001923 (hc) Description:  305 p. ; 22 cm. Summary:  "From the award-winning author of Bang Crunch and Boo, Jones is the harrowing, funny, utterly unforgettable story of a pair of siblings attempting to survive the horror show of their family. Abi and Eli share a special bond. Eli looks up to his sister Abi, two years older, who knows how to inhabit the souls of animals, and sometimes even the soul of her brother. They share jokes, codes, and an obsession with impressive feats of word power -- such are the survival tricks for growing up Jones. Pal, their alcoholic father, is haunted by demons from the Korean War, and their less-than-nurturing mother Joy hasn't got the courage to leave him. Always moving to where Pal gets work, the Joneses go from Montreal to Boston, Salt Lake City, Chicago, and back to Montreal. No matter where they go, though, they can never get away from Jones Town. And then, on Eli's twelfth birthday, the darkness deepens when he stumbles on something he doesn't understand -- an episode that represents the beginning of Abi's unraveling, although no one knows it yet. Over the years, Eli and Abi lurch towards and into adulthood on separate paths that sometimes cross, negotiating the world through sexual experimentation, drugs and alcohol, art and language. Searing, affecting and often darkly funny, Jones explores the treacherous intersection between love and violence, and the extreme measures Abi and Eli must take to escape the legacy of a toxic inheritance."--Publisher. Genre:  Canadian fiction. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Alderney Gate Public Library Adult Fiction FICTION SMI Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Bedford Public Library Adult Fiction FICTION SMI Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Fiction FICTION SMI Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Fiction FICTION SMI Adult books Adult Display 1 Add Copy to MyList Halifax North Memorial Public Library Adult Fiction FICTION SMI Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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