A Fast and Brutal Wing
Kathleen Jeffrie Johnson
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
3.50
· 2 ratings · 192 pages · Published: 02 Apr 2004
Animal justice: ruthless and swift. And totally satisfying.
A provocative, richly layered, and utterly compelling novel that asks the answerable: what is truth, and what does it mean to be human?
Niki and Emmet are siblings with a secret: their ability to change from human to animal, and back-their ability to transform-she to a cat, he to a hawk. Their mother is clueless, but how much does the elusive writer Slanger know? Is their classmate Doug as superficial as he seems? Is the psychiatrist a caretaker or an enemy? And what did she have to do with their father's disappearance?
Alternating 4 voices, paralleling the transformations of adolescence itself, this book is also about the transformative power of great literature, on the border between the darkest fantasy and our own reality.
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- horror 2
- coming of age 2
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