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ISBN:	1608192806 (ISBN13: 9781608192809)
Edition Language:	English

Wrecker Hardcover | Pages: 304 pages

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Title	:	Wrecker
Author	:	Summer Wood
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 304 pages
Published	:	February 20th 2011 by Bloomsbury USA (first published 2011)
Categories	:	Fiction. Literary Fiction. Contemporary. Young Adult. Coming Of Age

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After foster-parenting four young siblings a decade ago, Summer Wood tried to imagine a place where kids who are left alone or taken from their families would find the love and the family they deserve. For her, fiction was the tool to realize that world, and Wrecker, the central character in her second novel, is the abandoned child for whom life turns around in most unexpected ways. It's June of 1965 when Wrecker enters the world. The war is raging in Vietnam, San Francisco is tripping toward flower power, and Lisa Fay, Wrecker's birth mother, is knocked nearly sideways by life as a single parent in a city she can barely manage to navigate on her own. Three years later, she's in prison, and Wrecker is left to bounce around in the system before he's shipped off to live with distant relatives in the wilds of Humboldt County, California. When he arrives he's scared and angry, exploding at the least thing, and quick to flee. Wrecker is the story of this boy and the motley group of isolated eccentrics who come together to raise him and become a family along the way.
For readers taken with the special boy at the center of The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, Wrecker will be a welcome companion.

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Ratings: 3.7 From 472 Users | 135 Reviews

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The child came into the world in a San Francisco city park, born to an unmarried hippie mother who didnt even bother naming him for a year. When the boy shows a talent, even at such a young age, for being disruptive and getting into things he shouldnt his mother, Lisa Fay, finally decides on a name for him: Wrecker. With a start like that, its no wonder life ends up being an uphill battle for the boy.Unprepared for dealing with a child, especially after Wreckers father exists stage left, Lisa

This short review should come with a disclaimer: I started reading a few books in a row I didn't connect very well with, which indicates to me that maybe the fault lies not within the pages but within myself. (Please forgive the poor Shakespearean paraphrasing there.) I found it really difficult to follow the story on a page-by-page basis. Did Wood not set the stage well enough? I was continually confused by who was who, especially among the female characters, up until the last 100 pages or so

It was a struggle to finish this.But I stayed because the writing -- and the scenery those words depicted -- was so darn pretty. Really, really nice.I stayed because I appreciated the effort, the spirit of the joint: A real family ain't necessarily a mom and a dad and a 2.5 kids and their dog. Applaud that point. Go 'head with it.I stayed because I wanted to embrace the characters ... ... but I certainly didn't stay because I needed to know what happened. I didn't expect anything significant to

Two and a half stars.This had all the elements of things I like in a story. There is a child, named Wrecker, who at three years old needs to be fostered or adopted out as his mother Lisa Fay is sent to prison for fifteen years. Wrecker is sent to love with relatives in Humboldt County. But Len has enough to deal with, caring for his wife Meg who is incapacitated, barely speaks and requires a lot of looking after. So the group of Melody, Willow, Ruth and Johnnie Appleseed, who live nearby end up

I had a hard time deciding whether to give this book 2 or 3 stars. I definitely like the second half of the book better than the first.Wrecker is a slow-moving novel with many characters. The characters are stumbling through life, each with their own issues and agenda. I felt like I stumbled through the novel as I read it, not really sure if I cared about these characters or not. The story itself is interesting, and something about it kept me reading.I found it very disjointed though. At times,

I just couldn't get into it. There was nothing to connect me to any of the characters and the writing itself was a little more tell than show.

I won this book through First Reads. This book was a great look at how it can take a village to raise a child and that love for a child can bring people together. While we never learn what Wrecker thinks about anything, we end up observing him through every one else's eyes. I wanted to know more than anything just what he thought about being adopted, about being abandoned, and about growing up amongst those eccentric but well-meaning people. *SPOILER* Wrecker didn't end up being some amazing