Full name: American Youth: A Novel

Author: Phil Lamarche Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction, Contemporary, Young adult Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781400066056 9780812977400 1400066050 0812977408

American Youth is a controlled, essential, and powerful tale of a teenager in southern New England who is confronted by a terrible moral dilemma following a firearms accident in his home. This tragedy earns him the admiration of a sinister gang of boys at his school and a girl associated with them. Set in a town riven by social and ideological tensions-- an old rural culture in conflict with newcomers-- this is a classic portrait of a young man struggling with the idea of identity and responsibility in an America ill at ease with itself. Similar books: Crazy by Benjamin Lebert The Butterfly Tattoo by Philip Pullman Rumble Fish by S. E. Hinton Sometimes We're Always Real Same-Same by Mattox Roesch Breaktime by Aidan Chambers The Saskiad by Brian Hall Adam by Ariel Schrag Submarine by Joe Dunthorne The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green by Joshua Braff Thumbsucker by Walter Kirn Orbiting Jupiter by Gary D. Schmidt The Bitter Side of Sweet by Tara Sullivan We Were Here by Matt de la Pena Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands by Chris Bohjalian Scrawl by Mark Shulman Blueback by Tim Winton Beneath a Meth Moon by Jacqueline Woodson The Lesser Blessed by Richard Van Camp Courage for Beginners by Karen Harrington Sweetie by Kathryn Magendie