Pyres
Books / Hardcover
Books › Fiction › Coming of Age
ISBN: 0312363974 / Publisher: Minotaur Books, October 2007
When her college professor father is gunned down in botched robbery in a mall parking lot after she evades mall security following a shoplifting incident, fifteen-year-old Lucia Moberg finds herself caught in a web of violence and turmoil.
Read More
In PYRES, 15 year old Lucia Moberg lifts a CD out of a store in a shopping mall—and when she and her dad get into their car, there is a tap at the window. The next second her father's brains are on the dashboard. So begins the story of the ruin of her mother, whose home life is shrouded in darkness, a mysterious and menacing motorcycle gang, the real-to-life female cop out to crack the case, who is facing her own family's collapse, and the struggle for Lucia to piece together some semblance of a normal teenage life. The writing is hard and crisp, and wholly multi-dimensional, while the story moves along at a nail-biting pace with twists, turns, literary allusions, and the engaging plight of several fascinating, memorable, and fully rounded characters.
Read Less