Faraway Places
by Tom Spanbauer
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During a fateful summer, 13-year-old Jake Weber witnesses the brutal murder of a Native American woman by the town banker. Jake's parents forbid him to speak of the killing or name its perpetrator, even as the woman's African American lover stands falsely accused. The crime and what follows it forever alter Jake's view of his parents and the world around him. Faraway Places won widespread praise for its vivid narrative and incantatory style, and Spanbauer displays singular skill in show more inhabiting the mind of a troubled adolescent boy. show lessTags
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Faraway Places holds the tenor and the tone of a childhood. An impressive feat for a first book and a distillation of what it's like to start to awaken to ideas about racism and how one processes trauma.
This was his first novel. It's worth reading, but he got a lot better.
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Common Knowledge
- Original publication date
- 1988
- People/Characters
- Jacob Joseph Weber; Harold P. Endicott; Sugar Babe
- Important places
- Wind River, Idaho, USA
- Dedication
- To Clyde Hall: Un son baisch
- Publisher's editor
- Hughes, Rhonda
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- Members
- 109
- Popularity
- 296,882
- Reviews
- 2
- Rating
- (3.97)
- Languages
- English, Finnish, Spanish
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 7
- ASINs
- 2
