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Book, 2022
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Current format, Book, 2022, , Available . Offered in 0 more formats"Abi Jones a la capacité de projeter son âme dans le corps des animaux - et dans celui d'un seul être humain : son frère Eli. Ce lien indéfectible leur permet de tenir le coup face à l'alcoolisme et la brutalité paternelle et à l'indifférence maternelle. Entre Montréal, Boston, Salt Lake City et Chicago, les deux enfants grandissent, unis par leur sens de l'humour décapant, leurs expériences douteuses et leur amour des mots. La vie suit son cours à Jonestown, la ville qu'on ne peut jamais quitter même en déménageant à l'autre bout du continent. Mais un jour, Eli fait une découverte qui bouleverse son monde et révèle l'ampleur de la souffrance d'Abi. À l'aube de l'âge adulte, le frère et la sœur se soutiennent comme ils le peuvent, mais les ravages de Jonestown emportent Abi de plus en plus loin, là où Eli ne pourra bientôt plus la rejoindre. Drôle, cruel, tendre et tordu, Jones est un roman initiatique inoubliable, une ode à la force des liens fraternels, le récit honnête d'une enfance meurtrie, d'une survie difficile et des limites de l'amour." --
"Abi and Eli share a special bond. Eli looks up to his sister Abi, two years older, who knows how to inhabit the souls of animals, and sometimes even the soul of her brother. They share jokes, codes, and an obsession with impressive feats of word power--such are the survival tricks for growing up Jones. Pal, their alcoholic father, is haunted by demons from the Korean War, and their less-than-nurturing mother Joy hasn't got the courage to leave him. Always moving to where Pal gets work, the Joneses go from Montreal to Boston, Salt Lake City, Chicago, and back to Montreal. No matter where they go, though, they can never get away from Jones Town. And then, on Eli's twelfth birthday, the darkness deepens when he stumbles on something he doesn't understand--an episode that represents the beginning of Abi's unraveling, although no one knows it yet. Over the years, Eli and Abi lurch towards and into adulthood on separate paths that sometimes cross, negotiating the world through sexual experimentation, drugs and alcohol, art and language. Searing, affecting and often darkly funny, Jones explores the treacherous intersection between love and violence, and the extreme measures Abi and Eli must take to escape the legacy of a toxic inheritance." -
"Abi and Eli share a special bond. Eli looks up to his sister Abi, two years older, who knows how to inhabit the souls of animals, and sometimes even the soul of her brother. They share jokes, codes, and an obsession with impressive feats of word power--such are the survival tricks for growing up Jones. Pal, their alcoholic father, is haunted by demons from the Korean War, and their less-than-nurturing mother Joy hasn't got the courage to leave him. Always moving to where Pal gets work, the Joneses go from Montreal to Boston, Salt Lake City, Chicago, and back to Montreal. No matter where they go, though, they can never get away from Jones Town. And then, on Eli's twelfth birthday, the darkness deepens when he stumbles on something he doesn't understand--an episode that represents the beginning of Abi's unraveling, although no one knows it yet. Over the years, Eli and Abi lurch towards and into adulthood on separate paths that sometimes cross, negotiating the world through sexual experimentation, drugs and alcohol, art and language. Searing, affecting and often darkly funny, Jones explores the treacherous intersection between love and violence, and the extreme measures Abi and Eli must take to escape the legacy of a toxic inheritance." -
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