The Porcupine Of Truth
Seventeen-year-old Carson Speier is bored of Billings, Montana, and resentful that he has to help his mother take care of his father, a dying alcoholic whom he has not seen in fourteen years--but then he meets Aisha, a beautiful African American girl who has run away from her own difficult family, and together they embark on a journey of discovery that may help them both come to terms with their lives.
FIC
year: 2016
copies: 44
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 670
subjects: friendship, african american teenage girls, children of alcoholics, dysfunctional families, billings (mont.), family life, alcoholism [X], african americans, teenagers [X], missing persons [X], family problems, coming of age, bildungsromans