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Shield the Joyous

Dauer: 5 Std 20 Min
Sprache: Englisch
Format
Kategorie: Romane

Michael Haley, a whip-smart seventh-grader growing up in rural Mississippi in the early 1980s, has a precociously metaphysical turn of mind, a brand-new girlfriend who won’t come out of her bedroom, and plenty of neighborhood pals to distract him from both. But as he passes the long afternoon of this story roaming their streets, yards, and woods with the likes of Zeke Barry (his girlfriend’s brother and a born skeptic) and John Dixon Montgomery (a diminutive fishing genius plagued by assorted maladies), unsettling questions won’t leave Michael alone—like whether God will accept his gift of a dug-up, three-days-dead possum, whether he and his friends are in fact real, and why Ol’ Cletus, a mysterious, middle-aged recluse, appears to be stalking him. This last question, above all, will test Michael’s courage to seek answers.

With a voice all his own, swinging from sassy to lyrical in its candor, wonder, and spiritual yearning, Michael Haley stands squarely in the tradition of beloved young American narrators that stretches from Huck Finn through Holden Caulfield to Scout Finch. Imagine a cheeky blend of Charles Portis and Stranger Things filtered through St. Augustine and Zhuangzi, and you have some idea of this brilliant debut novel by Chad Holley. Shield the Joyous manages to be both deeply funny and moving in a way that is singularly authentic.

Erscheinungsdatum

Hörbuch: 11. Februar 2025