Patrick Downes. Philomel, $17.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-399-17290-8
It’s difficult to say who Downes is speaking to in his debut novel, except that it’s not a conventional YA audience. There is no plot, and the characters, distorted by madness, never fully unfold, enacting their destruction without discovering who...
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Patrick Downes. Philomel, $17.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-399-54499-6
Although Nest is in a coma after driving a car into a tree, she is very much present in this painful and often beautiful exploration of mental illness. Three years earlier, when Nest and her friend Isaac Kew (nicknamed “Q”) were 17, they took an...
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Patrick Downes, illus. by Boris Kulikov. Orchard, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-545-59768-5
Running away seems like a good idea to preschool-age Angus, until he strays too far in YA author Downes's (Fell of Dark) first picture book. Angus starts the day by lashing out. "In this house, being angry doesn't let you be rude," his mother...
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Jessica Kensky and Patrick Downes, illus. by Scott Magoon. Candlewick, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-9604-7
These married authors, who each lost legs in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings and have a service dog named Rescue, affectingly weave fact and fiction in their debut book. Jessica, a fictional child, is a hospital patient recovering from an...
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