Bones of a Saint -

Grant Farley

Soho Teen

2020

320 páginas

10h 40m

ISBN-13: 9781641291170

Fifteen-year-old RJ Armante has never known a life outside his dead-end hometown of Arcangel. Nothing changes: it’s a one-gang town. The Blackjacks still rule as they have for generations, luring the poorest youth into their monopoly on petty crime. They’ve left him alone until now. RJ has figured it’s because his brother, Charley, is disabled, wheelchair-bound or dependent on RJ to carry him around the valley like a backpack.

But when the Blackjacks come knocking and enlist RJ to prey upon Mr. Leguin—an old man who gives the whole town the creeps—he reaches his breaking point. And it’s not just about Charley. It’s also about Roxanne, the girl he can’t stop obsessing over, bitter because of an inexplicable moment in their past. It’s about the kids in his crew have little or nothing to live for. In order to free himself of the Blackjacks’ stranglehold, RJ ends up in a fight to free Arcangel from its past.