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Far From The Tree
Robin Benway
出版
Simon and Schuster
, 2017-11-09
主題
Juvenile Fiction / General
ISBN
1471164349
9781471164347
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=7BfhDgAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
WINNER OF THE U.S. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2017 FOR YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE!
'Sometimes, family hurts each other. But after that’s done you bandage each other up, and you move on. Together. So you can go and think that you’re some lone wolf, but you’re not. You’ve got us now, like it or not, and we’ve got you.'
When 16 year-old
Grace
gives up her baby for adoption, she decides that the time has come to find out more about her own biological mother. Although her
biological mum
proves elusive, her search leads her to two half-siblings she never knew existed.
Maya
, 15, has been adopted by wealthy parents and seems to have the picture-perfect family – that is, if you look past her alcoholic mother and the fact that Maya stands out like a sore thumb.
Older brother
Joaquin
hasn’t been so lucky. At 18, he’s shuffled between
foster home
after foster home, always careful never to get
attached
to anyone or anything, because it always gets
taken away
.
When these
three siblings
come together, they find in themselves the place they can
belong
, while the
secrets
they guard threaten to explode...
For fans of John Green, Rainbow Rowell and Nicola Yoon,
Far From the Tree
is a raw, compelling, and ultimately uplifting story of what it means to be family.
'Benway’s unforgettable novel explores the paradoxes and entanglements of unconventional families … It’s a melodrama, to be sure, but with as much brain as heart. Benway writes with remarkable control and has the rare talent of almost vanishing as an author as she inhabits each character’s perspective.'
The New York Times
'
Family issues are neither airbrushed nor oversimplified... From the first page to the last, this compassionate, funny, moving, compulsively readable novel about what makes a family gets it right.'
Kirkus Reviews
'Equally heartwarming and heart-wrenching... Benway delves into the souls of these characters as they wrestle to overcome feelings of inadequacy, abandonment, and betrayal, gradually coming to understand themselves and each other.'
Publishers Weekly
'
Far from the Tree
is the kind of book that strikes close to a reader’s heart. I had to know what happened to Grace, Maya, and Joaquin, and I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough. Beautiful.'
Ally Condie,
author of
The Matched Trilogy
'
Far From the Tree
is a touching story about the strength and love of unconventional families, and the unbreakable bond of siblings near and far. Robin Benway’s characters are authentically crafted, full of heart, hurt, and hope.'
Brandy Colbert,
author of
Pointe
and
Little & Lion
‘In the eloquent confidence of its life-embracing argument, the book really is something special’
The Wall Street Journal
Praise for
Emmy & Oliver
:
'Robin Benway writes with her full heart.
Emmy & Oliver
is a genuinely sweet and funny novel bursting with the inextinguishable forces of love-between parents and children, distant and inseparable friends, new and reunited lovers.'
Stephanie Perkins
,
New York Times
bestselling author of
Isla and the Happily Ever After
'
Emmy & Oliver
is wonderful. Funny, heartbreaking, and true. Robin Benway has written characters I felt like I'd known forever, and was so sad to see go. A must-read.'
Morgan Matson
, author of
Since You've Been Gone