33 Snowfish

Written by Adam Rapp · Illustrated by Timothy Basil Ering

Three runaways with a stolen car and a kidnapped baby search for a way out of their pasts.

3.8 Goodreads · 926 ratings

179 pages· 37,417 words· Est. 3.5 hour read· 1050L· AR 5.2 · 6 AR pts

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Bookroo's summary

Custis, Curl and Boobie are three teenagers with brutal pasts, on the run in a stolen car with a kidnapped baby. As they struggle to survive and find a new life, it becomes clear that none of them can leave the past behind, though for one of them redemption waits in an unlikely place. Told in raw, stream-of-consciousness voices, it is a harrowing story for older teens.

From the publisher

A harrowing new novel by Adam Rapp brings us to the depths of humanity - and powerfully dramatizes the resilience of the human spirit. On the run in a stolen car with a kidnapped baby in tow, Custis, Curl, and Boobie are three young people with deeply troubled pasts and bleak futures. As they struggle to find a new life for themselves, it becomes painfully clear that none will ever be able to leave the past behind. Yet for one, redemption is waiting in the unlikeliest of places. With the raw language of the street and lyrical, stream-of-consciousness prose, Adam Rapp hurtles the reader into a world of lost children, a world that is not for the faint of heart. Gripping, disturbing, and starkly illuminating, his hypnotic narration captures the voices of two damaged souls - a third speaks only through drawings - to tell a story of alienation, deprivation, and ultimately, the saving power of compassion.

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