Böcker av Giano Cromley

Like most teenagers, Kirby Russo doesn''t want much: a calm home life, a couple close friends, a sense of direction and purpose. And a chance to relax with a cocktail now and then. And maybe some privacy whenever fantasy and hormones get the better of him. But his world''s upended when he comes home from computer camp to find his stepfather gone and his mom sleeping with their neighbor. In short order, he has to plan an epic road trip to save his family. Never mind the fact that he''s at that age where you take yourself seriously, but no one else does. Never mind the fact that he doesn''t have a car--it''s really more like borrowing when it''s a friend''s parent''s car and they won''t know it''s gone. And never mind the fact that he doesn''t know as much about life as he thinks he does.

Like an arrowhead, the title story in this collection pierces through our tough skin and through to what's delicate within. It's the first piece in a triptych that elegantly holds together this stunning collection about love and loss and longing-our feeble human institutions and fragile relationships broken down and rusting; our tender hearts shot through with tragedy and dysfunction but still struggling to stay alive, to find wholeness and healing and rebirth in nature, or just to keep beating as long as possible in the face of overwhelming sorrow.