We the Animals
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Call Number: BOCD Fiction
On Shelf At: Downtown Library
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Unabridged.
Compact discs.
Read by Frankie J. Alvarez.
Three brothers tear their way through childhood-- smashing tomatoes all over each other, building kites from trash, hiding out when their parents do battle, tiptoeing around the house as their mother sleeps off her graveyard shift. Paps and Ma are from Brooklyn--he's Puerto Rican, she's white--and their love is a serious, dangerous thing that makes and unmakes a family many times. Life in this family is fierce and absorbing, full of chaos and heartbreak and the euphoria of belonging completely to one another. From the intense familial unity felt by a child to the profound alienation he endures as he begins to see the world, this beautiful novel reinvents the coming-of-age story in a way that is sly and punch-in-the-stomach powerful.
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PUBLISHED
Ashland, OR : Blackstone Audio, Inc., p2011.
Year Published: 2011
Description: 3 sound discs (ca. 3 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language: English
Format: Book on CD
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781455119806
1455119806
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Alvarez, Frankie J.
Blackstone Audio, Inc.
SUBJECTS
Families -- Fiction.
Brothers -- Fiction.
Upstate New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.