Spark by J A Brooks Hardback Book 9780228860396… Ещё

Remember the time you realized your parents were not the indestructible heroes you believed them to be but they were actually flawed human beings who made mistakes like everyone else And from that moment on you saw them and the world through a different lens Equally worldchanging was the moment your parents no longer saw you as a child but rather as the person they no longer needed to rule How quickly our view of the world can shift Regardless of how divided we all may feel what binds us is knowledge of our favorites to our fears and that moment that single moment when we understand what it means to be aliveSet in the fictional coastal town of Hurstbridge SPARK follows the journey of Jonah a bookish loner with an attraction to electronics The son of two intercultural women and unmistakable bully bait Jonah desperately seeks the friendship of Mack his disillusioned alphabigot neighborA retired electrician Mack is new to the community where he believes hes found the perfect place to spend his final days Relentlessly pursued by Jonah Mack decides to take the boy under his wing to help him become the only kind of person he thinks should exist in the world a man not unlike himself...