Dave Gioia

Himba Pond Dance (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Trey Hollinswood, 15, and his thirteen-year-old sister Kim are dealing with a lot: Their parents separate; the bank forecloses on their home; they stay with their mom in a homeless shelter and then in the home of a customer, Walt, she meets at work. The atmosphere at Walt's is tense and life for Trey and Kim is made more difficult because they're forced to share a bedroom. Like all young people, they have issues; Trey his burgeoning sex drive and Kim the fact that she has no interest in acting or looking girlish and is sometimes mistaken for a boy. They struggle to grow up and, in the process, learn about love and the importance of friendship; Trey with Julie, Walt's seventeen-year-old daughter, and Emily, a cotillion partner, and Kim with Cyd, a girl she meets in her soccer league. Their coming-of-age stories are two of many stories about people of all ages dealing with life and relationships in Southern California during the Great Recession.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dave Gioia Creative
• Seitenzahl: 388
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798992932751
• Artikelnr.: 75121429

Autorenporträt

"Southern California, where Dave lived for many years, is the setting for both his debut novel, Valley of Saint Anne, and second novel, Himba Pond Dance. The atmosphere, landscape, landmarks, politics and culture of Southern California inform both of these novels while the subjects they deal with are universal.Dave's third novel, A Girl With A Bad Reputation, is set in Newburgh, NY, and New York City in the mid to late 1960s. Just as Southern California informs his first two novels, so the decade of the 1960s informs his third. Unlike his first two novels, though, which feature the interweaving of many characters' stories, A Girl With A Bad Reputation is the story of a single young adult protagonist, Colleen Hanrahan, and is told entirely from her point of view."