Gather

Gather
By Kenneth M. Cadow

Candlewick Press, 2023. 325 pages. Young Adult Fiction.

A resourceful teenager in rural Vermont struggles to hold on to the family home while his mom recovers from addiction in this striking debut novel.

This is a first person narrative that quickly acclimates the reader directly into the life and story of young Ian. You see first-hand how he thinks and processes event after event, sometimes awkwardly or a bit out of hand--as you would expect of a young teenager--but always with reason. A moving and beautiful story about the resiliency of a teenager.  

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