Stones (2013) (The Friday Project)
Polly Johnson
Grade: C
Genre: young adult
Source: NetGalley
YA Reading Bingo Challenge 2014: A book with a female heroine
Sixteen year old Coo is finding
it difficult to grieve for her deceased brother. Sam had been a perfectly
adequate older brother when they were both younger, but once he found drink, he
turned into a different person. Life with this new Sam had been depressing and
at times, unbearable. For Coo, her needs were always marginalized or forgotten
and her parents seemed to have little consideration for the effects of Sam’s
behaviour on her. Her parents would breathe a sigh of relief when he didn’t
come home, yet never turned him away when he returned, reeking of alcohol with
an undercurrent of violence.
