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Carry
Me Home
Jessica
Therrien
Genre: YA Contemporary Fiction
Publisher: Acorn Publishing
Date of Publication: September 26, 2017
ISBN: 978-1-947392-09-0
Number of pages: 356
Word Count: 75,000
Cover Artist: Damonza
Book Description:
CARRY
ME HOME is a fictional novel inspired by the true story of a teenage girl’s
involvement in several Mexican gangs in San Jose and Los Angeles. The members
of her crew call her, Guera, Spanish for “white girl” and it doesn’t take long
for her to get lost in their world of guns and drugs.
Lucy and Ruth are country girls
from a broken home. When they move to the city with their mother, leaving
behind their family ranch and dead-beat father, Lucy unravels.
They run to their grandparents’
place, a trailer park mobile home in the barrio of San Jose. Lucy’s barrio
friends have changed since her last visit. They’ve joined a gang called VC.
They teach her to fight, to shank, to beat a person unconscious and play with
guns. When things get too heavy, and lives are at stake, the three girls head
for LA seeking a better life.
But trouble always follows Lucy.
She befriends the wrong people, members of another gang, and every bad choice
she makes drags the family into her dangerous world.
Told from three points of view,
the story follows Lucy down the rabbit hole, along with her mother and sister
as they sacrifice dreams and happiness, friendships and futures. Love is
waiting for all of them in LA, but pursuing a life without Lucy could mean
losing her forever.
Ultimately it’s their bond with
each other that holds them together, in a true test of love, loss and survival.
“A
riveting page-turner…Jessica Therrien broke my heart into a million pieces—and
then put it back together again. This book will haunt and uplift readers long
after they turn the last page.” -KAT ROSS, best-selling author of The Midnight
Sea
About
the Author:
Jessica Therrien is the author of
the young adult series Children of the Gods. Book one in the series,
Oppression, became a Barnes and Noble best-seller shortly after its release.
Her trilogy has been translated and sold through major publishers around the
world, such as Editions AdA (Canada), EditionsMilan (France), and SharpPoint
Press (China).
Aside from her Children of the
Gods series, Jessica is the author of a kid’s picture book called, The
Loneliest Whale. Her award-winning stories can also be found in a published
anthology of flash fiction.
Jessica currently lives in Irvine
with her husband and two young sons. She is working on an adult novel and a
middle grade fantasy series.
Websites/Blog: www.jessicatherrienbooks.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JessicaTherrien
1 comment:
This cover is absolutely stunning! Love it.
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