Bøger af Chris Clarkson

"In her new foster home, Chloe experiences a sense of belonging and makes a heartfelt wish to stay"--

Charlie uses happy memories to cope with the loss of his older brother, and soon discovers that Mom and Dad each do the same.

Being there for her family is the most important thing to Jessamine Monet. And her family is complicated. Her twin brother Joel has a secret boyfriend, and her transgender cousin Solange is flourishing, despite the disapproval of Solange''s dying mother. Yet Jessamine doesn''t mind being caught up in family drama. Being busy keeps the water at bay - the water of memories, of Katrina, of past trauma. So when Tennessee Williams - a rich white boy named after the writer - asks her out, she hesitantly says yes. He''ll be like a library book, she figures, something to read and return. Falling for him is another burden she can''t afford to carry. Tennessee has always lived his life at the mercy of his mum''s destructive creativity and his dad''s hypermasculine expectations. Jessamine''s caring and aloof nature is a surprisingly welcome distraction. While she fights her attraction to him, Tennessee is pulled into her inner family circle and develops a friendship with Joel''s boyfriend, Saint Baptist

In this history of prison reform in mid-twentieth-century Canada, the voices of prisoners help to provide a nuanced understanding of prisoners as active agents of change.