Bøker av Paul Cody

Oliver Curtin grows up in a nocturnal world with a mother who is a sex worker and drug addict, and whose love is real yet increasingly unreliable. His narration alternates between that troubled childhood and the present of the novel, where he is serving the last months of a thirty-years-to-life sentence in a maximum-security prison in upstate New York, for a crime he committed at age seventeen. His redemption is closely allied with his memories, seen with growing clarity and courage. If he can remember, then life in the larger world is possible for him.

Trey Burnes grew up above a funeral home run by his strange and sometimes frightening parents. Now 17, he's locked up on an adolescent psychiatric ward, where he tries to remember an often traumatic past-including, perhaps, an attempt on his life. As Trey relives his shadowed childhood, lit by moments of love and grace, he struggles to come to terms with the past and imagine how-whether-he can return to the world.