The porcupine of truth /
Bill Konigsberg.
- First printing.
- 325 pages ; 21 cm
Seventeen-year-old Carson Speier is bored of Billings, Montana, and resentful that he has to help his mother take care of his father, a dying alcoholic whom he has not seen in fourteen years--but then he meets Aisha, a beautiful African American girl who has run away from her own difficult family, and together they embark on a journey of discovery that may help them both come to terms with their lives.
9781338032451
2014027136
Family problems--Fiction. Alcoholism--Fiction. African Americans--Fiction. Friendship--Fiction.