![]() (After all, Coalfield isn’t a big place.) They don’t tell anyone it’s theirs, and enjoy the reactions to their guerilla art as sly observers. Then they dig out an old photocopy machine in Frankie’s garage, and make copies with which to furtively festoon the whole town. We are fugitives, and the law is skinny with hunger for us.” Zeke fills in the rest of the page with his artwork, and for good measure, they prick their fingers and comingle their blood on the poster. The words are Frankie’s, and they are indeed well written for a kid of sixteen years: “The edge is a shantytown filled with gold seekers. Zeke says that he likes to draw, and so together, they make a poster. This book is for sale now.įrankie invites Zeke over one day her dad has flown the coop, and her mom is at work, so in order to make it clear that she hasn’t invited him over for carnal purposes, Frankie talks to him about her love of writing. My thanks go to Net Galley and Ecco Publishing for the review copy. ![]() ![]() ![]() She has nothing but time this summer, and so when Zeke, an even quirkier new kid, moves into the tiny town of Coalfield, Tennessee, the two are drawn together. Frankie is kind of a quirky kid, friendless and grieving her parents’ divorce and her father’s abandonment of his kids. ![]()
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