Grace For thirteen year old Trevor Kennedy taking photos helps make sense of his fractured world His father Kurt struggles to keep a business going while also caring for Trevor s aging grandfather whose

For thirteen year old Trevor Kennedy, taking photos helps make sense of his fractured world His father, Kurt, struggles to keep a business going while also caring for Trevor s aging grandfather, whose hoarding has reached dangerous levels Trevor s mother, Elisabeth, all but ignores her son while doting on his five year old sister, Gracy, and pilfering useless drugstore iFor thirteen year old Trevor Kennedy, taking photos helps make sense of his fractured world His father, Kurt, struggles to keep a business going while also caring for Trevor s aging grandfather, whose hoarding has reached dangerous levels Trevor s mother, Elisabeth, all but ignores her son while doting on his five year old sister, Gracy, and pilfering useless drugstore items Trevor knows he can count on little Gracy s unconditional love and his art teacher s encouragement None of that compensates for the bullying he has endured at school for as long as he can remember But where Trevor once silently tolerated the jabs and name calling, now anger surges through him in ways he s powerless to control Only Crystal, a store clerk dealing with her own loss, sees the deep fissures in the Kennedy family in the haunting photographs Trevor brings to be developed, and in the palpable distance between Elisabeth and her son And as their lives become intertwined, each will be pushed to the breaking point, with shattering, unforeseeable consequences.
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Free Read Grace - by T. Greenwood
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T Greenwood is the author of twelve novels She has received grants from the Sherwood Anderson Foundation, the Christopher Isherwood Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and, most recently, the Maryland State Arts Council She has won three San Diego Book Awards Five of her novels have been BookSense76 IndieBound picks BODIES OF WATER was finalist for a Lambda Foundation award Her twelfth novel, RUST STARDUST, will be published in August 2018.She teaches creative writing for San Diego Writer s Ink and online for The Writer s Center She and her husband, Patrick, live in San Diego, CA with their two daughters She is also a photographer.More information on T Greenwood can be found at her websites tgreenwood and ephemerafiles