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It Looks Like This

It Looks Like This

by Rafi Mittlefehldt
Hardback
Publication Date: 01/12/2016

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In spare, understated prose heightened by a keen lyricism, a debut author will take your breath away.

A new state, a new city, a new high school. Mike's father has already found a new evangelical church for the family to attend, even if Mike and his plainspoken little sister, Toby, don't want to go. Dad wants Mike to ditch art for sports, to toughen up, but there's something uneasy behind his demands.

Then Mike meets Sean, the new kid, and "hey" becomes games of basketball, partnering on a French project, hanging out after school. A night at the beach. The fierce colors of sunrise. But Mike's father is always watching.

And so is Victor from school, cell phone in hand. In guarded, Carveresque prose that propels you forward with a sense of stomachdropping inevitability, Rafi Mittlefehldt tells a wrenching tale of first love and loss that exposes the undercurrents of a tidy suburban world. Heartbreaking and ultimately life-affirming, It Looks Like This is a novel of love and family and forgiveness not just of others, but of yourself.

ISBN:
9780763687199
9780763687199
Category:
Personal & social issues: sexuality & relationships (Children's / Teenage)
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
01-12-2016
Language:
English
Publisher:
Candlewick Press
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
336
Dimensions (mm):
215x155x26mm
Weight:
0.51kg
Rafi Mittlefehldt

Rafi Mittlefehldt is a writer who has worked as a newspaper reporter, freelance theater critic, and children’s author. His debut novel was It Looks Like This.

Rafi Mittlefehldt lives with his husband in New York City.

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