Book
All the walls of Belfast : a novel
Call Number
- FICTION CARL TEEN (CEN)
Publication Information
Nashville, Tennessee : Turner Publishing Company, [2018]
Physical Description
251 pages ; 22 cm
Summary
"Wisconsin seventeen-year-old Fiona Kelly visits the father she never knew--and her half-brothers--in Belfast, Ireland, where she also connects with Danny, but their families' pasts may shatter what they have." --
The Carnival at Bray meets West Side Story in Sarah Carlson's powerful YA debut; set in post-conflict Belfast (Northern Ireland), alternating between two teenagers, both trying to understand their past and preserve their future. Seventeen-year-olds, Fiona and Danny must choose between their dreams and the people they aspire to be. Fiona and Danny were born in the same hospital. Fiona's mom fled with her to the United States when she was two, but, fourteen years after the Troubles ended, a forty-foot-tall peace wall still separates her dad's Catholic neighborhood from Danny's Protestant neighborhood. After chance brings Fiona and Danny together, their love of the band Fading Stars, big dreams, and desire to run away from their families unites them. Danny and Fiona must help one another overcome the burden of their parents' pasts. But one ugly truth might shatter what they have...
Subjects
- Fathers and daughters > Juvenile fiction.
- Families > Ireland > Juvenile fiction.
- Fathers and daughters > Fiction.
- Family life > Ireland > Fiction.
- Belfast (Northern Ireland) > Juvenile fiction.
- Northern Ireland > Juvenile fiction.
- Ireland > History > 20th century > Juvenile fiction.
- Belfast (Northern Ireland) > Fiction.
- Northern Ireland > Fiction.
- Ireland > History > 20th century > Fiction.