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No longer able to tolerate living with his alcoholic mother and her abusive boyfriend, Benji has moved in with his emotionally distant father and strives to be invisible until a series of events forces him to express himself.
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The "powerful, compelling" (Booklist) new novel from Brian James, now in paperback.Benji has to escape his home. His mother's boyfriend has crossed the line, and Benji can't deal with it anymore. So he leaves behind everything he knows to go live with his father and stepmother in Portland. His stepmother is nice, but he doesn't trust her. His father is testy, refusing to trust Benji. And Benji ... he's just trying not to self-destruct.In this spellbinding novel, Brian James surpasses his previous work to take his place among Adam Rapp, Melvin Burgess, and Kevin Brooks on the razor's edge of teen literature.
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