by E. Stoops
BOOK DESCRIPTION
Being Emelle is a coming-of-age story that begins when Emelle is a small child, watching the interplay between his unmarried parents as they attempt to stabilize their stormy on-and-off again relationship. During his childhood, Emelle contends with the growing distance between himself and his father, as well as his own rocky entry into adolescence. But Being Emelle is not a classic coming of age story. It doesn't happen in suburbia, and it doesn't happen in an average family, and it certainly doesn't happen to an ordinary boy.
Emelle grows from an odd child into a gentle, odd, young man. His story focuses heavily on his teen years when his ongoing feud with his father, high-school bullies, and bumpy relationship with the brilliant but more tumultuous Annalynn all come to a head. The resolution, when he steps into the next stage of his life, though a twist, is deeply satisfying.
His story is both a heavy and light take on the classic coming of age stories. Things happen as they do in life, sometimes harshly, sometimes sweetly, but never without passion. Delicious, complex characterization and the accurate description of Spokane, Washington (the setting of the book) will capture the reader and hold them close.
Emelle grows from an odd child into a gentle, odd, young man. His story focuses heavily on his teen years when his ongoing feud with his father, high-school bullies, and bumpy relationship with the brilliant but more tumultuous Annalynn all come to a head. The resolution, when he steps into the next stage of his life, though a twist, is deeply satisfying.
His story is both a heavy and light take on the classic coming of age stories. Things happen as they do in life, sometimes harshly, sometimes sweetly, but never without passion. Delicious, complex characterization and the accurate description of Spokane, Washington (the setting of the book) will capture the reader and hold them close.
AUTHOR BIO
E. Stoops is an pleasantly neurotic author who lives in the Pacific Northwest United States, east of the rain, but west of the Rocky mountains. In a unassuming house in Suburbia, they live with two rabbits, a dog, a roommate and a flock of books.
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