The Mostly True Story of Jack by Kelly Barnhill

The depiction of the perpetual cycle of abuse may be too depressing for some, but fans of dark, surreal fantasy will be enthralled. In bleak but beautiful prose, Barnhill maintains the original fable’s examination of female exploitation at the hands of male partners and the limits of self-sacrifice, while also touching on more contemporary themes like drone surveillance and the commodification of art. In a strange house with even odder people. When his parents divorce, they send him to live with his strange aunt and uncle in a tiny little farm town. As the mother becomes too absorbed in her crane-inspired (and crane-demanded) artwork to care for her children, a social worker circles and the narrator decides to take matters into her own hands. The Mostly True Story of Jack is about a boy whom no one really notices, not even his parents.

Enter a world where magic bubbles just below the surface. He moves in, filling the house with feathers, terrifying the narrator’s six-year-old brother, Michael, and cutting the mother with his caresses. Newbery Medal-winner Kelly Barnhill's debut novel is an eerie tale of magic, friendship, and sacrifice. When the unnamed narrator’s flighty, artistic mother brings home a crane as the latest in a long line of abusive lovers, the narrator, a 15-year-old girl, believes this will be another fly-by-night romance. Newbery Medal-winner Kelly Barnhills debut novel is an eerie tale of magic, friendship, and sacrifice. Urn:oclc:846732305 Republisher_date 20170103123607 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 511 Scandate 20161230102356 Scanner this grim, grown-up fairy tale, Newbery Medalist Barnhill ( The Girl Who Drank the Moon) delivers a dark and engrossing response to the folk tale of the Crane Wife. Urn:lcp:mostlytruestoryo00barn:epub:24f9d0f9-119d-4ea0-bd5c-ac32c2db9c79 Extramarc University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (PZ) Foldoutcount 0 Identifier mostlytruestoryo00barn Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t4vh9mn63 Invoice 1213 Isbn 9780316056700Ġ316056707 Lccn 2010044934 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 11.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.11 Ocr_module_version 0.0.14 Openlibrary OL25092374M Openlibrary_edition

5 In February 2019 Kelly was the Literary Guest of Honor and Keynote Speaker at the 37th annual Life, the Universe, & Everything professional science fiction and fantasy. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 15:39:17.573931 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA1146813 Boxid_2 BWB220140903 City New York Edition 1st ed. Barnhill's books include The Unlicensed Magician, The Witch's Boy, Iron-Hearted Violet, The Mostly True Story of Jack, as well as several non-fiction titles for children.

The Mostly True Story of Jack by Kelly Barnhill