
Continuing with our YA week with male characters
When youβve been kept caged in the dark, itβs impossible
to see the forest for the trees. Itβs impossible to see
anything, really. Not without bars . . .
In Stephanie Kuehn's brilliant debutΒ Charm &
Strange, Andrew Winston Winters is at war with himself.
Β Heβs part Win, the lonely teenager
exiled to a remote Vermont boarding school in the wake of a
family tragedy.Β The guy who shuts all his classmates
out, no matter the cost.
Heβs part Drew, the angry young boy with violent impulses
that control him. The boy who spent a fateful, long-ago
summer with his brother and teenage cousins, only to endure
a secret so monstrous it led three children to do the
unthinkable.
Over the course of one night, while stuck at a party deep in
the New England woods, Andrew battles both the pain of his
past and the isolation of his present.
Before the sun rises, heβll either surrender his sanity to
the wild darkness inside his mind or make peace with the
most elemental of truthsβthat choosing to live can mean so
much more than not dying.
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