The edge of being
Call Number
- FICTION BRAN TEEN (EAS, POW)
Publication Information
New York : Nancy Paulsen Books, [2022]
Physical Description
277, 8 pages ; 21 cm
Audience
Grades 7-9. Nancy Paulsen Books.
Summary
Seventeen-year-old Isaac Griffin sets out to find the father he has never met, only to discover that perhaps the missing pieces of his life were never missing at all. Includes author's note.
Isaac Griffin has never met his dad, and has always felt something was missing from his life. When he discovers a box hidden deep in the attic with his father's name on it, the first clue points him to San Francisco. Isaac sets off with his boyfriend to find the answers, but his vintage station wagon breaks down-- and possibly the relationship too. Forced to rely on an unusual girl who goes by Max, the two retrace his father's steps during the weeks leading up to the Compton's Cafeteria Riot in San Francisco, a precursor to the Stonewall Riots a few years later.
Subjects
- Gay teenagers > Juvenile fiction.
- Fathers > Juvenile fiction.
- Sexual minorities > Juvenile fiction.
- Cutting (Self-mutilation) > Juvenile fiction.
- Coming of age > Juvenile fiction.
- Gay teenagers > Fiction.
- Fathers > Fiction.
- Cutting (Self-mutilation) > Fiction.
- Sexual minorities > Fiction.
- San Francisco (Calif.) > Juvenile fiction.
- Los Angeles (Calif.) > Juvenile fiction.
- San Francisco (Calif.) > Fiction.
- Los Angeles (Calif.) > Fiction.