Shrug - by Lisa Braver Moss (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>It's the 1960s, and teenager Martha Goldenthal just wants to do well at Berkeley High and apply to college--but how can she when her father is a raging batterer who disdains academia, and her mother is arguably worse? When her mother abandons the family, Martha must stand up to her father to fulfill her vision of going to college.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>It's Berkeley in the 1960s, and all Martha Goldenthal wants is to do well at Berkeley High and plan for college. But her home life is a cauldron of kooky ideas, impossible demands, and explosive physical violence. Her father, Jules, is an iconoclast who hates academia and can't control his fists. Her mother, Willa, has made a career of victimhood and expects Martha and her siblings, Hildy and Drew, to fend for themselves. Meanwhile, Jules's classical record store, located directly across the street from the U.C. Berkeley campus, is ground zero for riots and tear gas. Martha perseveres with the help of her best friend, who offers laughter, advice about boys, and hospitality. But when Willa and Jules divorce and Jules loses his store and livelihood, Willa goes entirely off the rails. A heartless boarding school placement, eviction from the family home, and an unlikely custody case wind up putting Martha and Drew in Jules's care. Can Martha stand up to her father to do the one thing she knows she must--go to college? With its running soundtrack of classical recordings and rock music and its vivid scenes of Berkeley at its most turbulent, <i>Shrug</i> is the absorbing, harrowing, and ultimately uplifting story of one young woman's journey toward independence.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><b>2020 IPPY Awards Gold Winner, YA Fiction<br>2020 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards Silver Winner, Fiction<br>2019 Moonbeam Award Gold Medal Winner, YA Fiction, Historical<br>2019 Best Book Award Finalist in YA Fiction<br>2019 Sarton Women's Book Awards Finalist, Historical Fiction<br>2020 Goethe Awards (post-1750 historical fiction) Finalist<br>2020 Independent Press Awards Distinguished Favorite, YA Fiction<br>2019 Wishing Shelf Book Awards Finalist<br>14th Annual NIEA Winner, Regional Fiction West</b> <p/>"Gripping from beginning to end, this beautifully written work is impossible to put down." <br>--The BookLife Prize <p/>"A complex and compelling coming-of-age story . . . highly recommended." <br>--The Wishing Shelf Book Awards <p/>"Read this book. It will knock your socks off." <br>--Laurin Porter, author of The Banished Prince: Time, Memory, and Ritual in the Late Plays of Eugene O'Neill <p/><br>
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