The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey
James Lecesne
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars
3.79
· 14 ratings · 352 pages · Published: 20 Jun 2019
This is the story of a luminous force of nature: a boy who encounters evil and whose magic isn't truly felt until he disappears.
Phoebe’s life in Neptune, New Jersey, is somewhat unremarkable. She helps her mom out with her hair salon, she goes to school, and she envies her perfect older sister. But everything changes when Leonard arrives.
Leonard is an orphan, a cousin who Phoebe never knew she had. When he comes to live with Phoebe’s family, he upsets the delicate balance of their lives. He’s gay and confident about who he is. He inspires the people around him. He sees people not as they are, but as they hope to be.
One day, Leonard goes missing. Phoebe, her family, and her community fight to understand what happened, and to make sense of why someone might want to extinguish the beautiful absolute brightness that was Leonard Pelkey.
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