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Author Carr, Brian Allen, 1979-

Title Opioid, Indiana / Brian Allen Carr ; illustrations by Jim Agpalza.

Imprint New York, NY : Soho, [2019]

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 PHS Fiction  RE F Carr    ---  Available
Description 213 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Indexed In: Publishers Weekly, July 2019
Kirkus Review, August 2019
Library Journal web only, August 2019
Summary "Seventeen-year-old Riggle is living in rural Indiana with his uncle and uncle's girlfriend after the death of both of his parents. Now his uncle has gone missing, probably on a drug binge. It's Monday, and $800 in rent is due Friday. Riggle, who's been suspended from school, has to either find his uncle or get the money together himself. His mission exposes him to a motley group of Opioid locals--encounters by turns perplexing, harrowing, and heartening. Meanwhile, Riggle marks each day by remembering the mythology his late mother invented for him about how the days got their names. With amazing directness and insight, Carr explores what it's like to be a high school kid in in the age of Trump, a time of economic inequality, addiction, confederate flags, and mass shootings. A work of empathy and insight that pierces to the heart of our moment through an unforgettable protagonist"--Provided by publisher.
Audience Adult Follett School Solutions.
Subject Teenage boys -- Fiction.
Uncles -- Fiction.
Opioid abuse -- Fiction.
Indiana -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Bildungsromans.
Bildungsromans.
ISBN 9781641290784

 
    
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