Sketcher
Watson-Grant, Roland2014
Book
9-year-old Skid Beaumont's family is stuck in the mud. Due to his father's decision to relocate and build a new home, based on a drunken vision that New Orleans would rapidly expand eastwards into the wetlands as a result of the oil boom, Skid and his brothers grow up in a swampy area of Louisiana. But the constructions stop short, the dream fizzles out, and the Beaumonts find themselves sinking in a soggy corner of 1980s Cold War America. As things on the home front get more complicated, Skid learns of his mother's alleged magic powers and vaguely remembers some eerie stories surrounding his elder brother Frico.
Main title:
Sketcher / Roland Watson-Grant.
Author:
Watson-Grant, Roland, author
Work:
Imprint:
Richmond : Alma Books, 2014.Richmond : Alma Books, 2014.
Collation:
320 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9781846883125 (pbk)
Dewey class:
813.6GENFICTION
Language:
English
BRN:
1476108