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A feisty young boy fakes his own death to escape his abusive father and heads off down the Mississippi River with his newfound friend Jim, a runaway slave.
The adventures of a mischievous young boy and his friends growing up in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century.
3. The archer
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A "fable about the importance of taking risks and overcoming difficulty ... told from the perspective of Tetsuya, a famous former archer, and his apprentice"--
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"A new creation by the author of Severance, the stories in Bliss Montage crash through our carefully built mirages"--
5. Heaven
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4 stars
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"Hailed as a bold foray into new literary territory, Kawakami's novel is told in the voice of a 14-year-old student subjected to relentless torment for having a lazy eye. Instead of resisting, the boy chooses to suffer in complete resignation. The only person who understands what he is going through is a female classmate who suffers similar treatment at the hands of her tormenters. These raw and realistic portrayals of bullying are counterbalanced...
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3 stars
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Three teengers, Freya, Harun, and Nathaniel feel lost in various ways and when they collide in Central Park, they begin to find purpose in their lives.