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Scowler by Daniel Kraus
4.0
There is a disconnection that comes with leaving the structure of public education. For years the calendar rose and fell with the ringing of bells, holiday breaks and assignment deadlines. A year after graduation, nineteen year old Ry Burke is lost on his families failing farm. His dad is in jail, his mother is slowly killing the farm, and his pre-teen sister torments him with new curse word combinations.
Ry seems destined to follow his mother off the farm into a life of dead end minimum wage jobs when his life is changed by a stranger, a meteor, and three old friends from his battered childhood.
A well placed meteor destroys the prison housing Ry's murderous father. Before long, Martin Burke finds his way home and is ready to take out revenge on the people who ripped him from his land.
In confronting his father, Ry has to unleash the repressed nightmares of his childhood and overcome his tortured past in order to help his family survive the monster watching t.v. in their living room.
Ry seems destined to follow his mother off the farm into a life of dead end minimum wage jobs when his life is changed by a stranger, a meteor, and three old friends from his battered childhood.
A well placed meteor destroys the prison housing Ry's murderous father. Before long, Martin Burke finds his way home and is ready to take out revenge on the people who ripped him from his land.
In confronting his father, Ry has to unleash the repressed nightmares of his childhood and overcome his tortured past in order to help his family survive the monster watching t.v. in their living room.