Winning a national high-school geography competition should be the high point of Jomon’s life. So why does he find himself running through the streets of Georgetown, Guyana, later that same night ― so angry and desperate? Why does he heave his hard-won medal through the front window of a liquor store?
Why does a teenaged boy decide life is not worth living?
Arrested by police and detained in a jail cell, Jomon is jolted out of his suicidal thoughts by the sudden appearance of another teenaged boy ― who claims to be his great-great-grandfather …
- ISBN: 9781773063874
- Published: 2020 , Groundwood Books
- Themes: Mental Health, Mulitgenerational, Suicide
- Descriptors: Realistic Fiction, South America, Young Adult (ages 14-18)
- No. of pages: 200