Shrug

by Lisa Braver Moss

Book Overview

It's Berkeley in the 1960s, and all Martha Goldenthal wants is to do well at Berkeley High and plan for college. But her home life is a cauldron of kooky ideas, impossible demands, and explosive physical violence. Her father, Jules, is an iconoclast who hates academia and can't control his fists. Her mother, Willa, has made a career of victimhood and expects Martha and her siblings, Hildy and Drew, to fend for themselves. Meanwhile, Jules's classical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1631526383
• ISBN13: 9781631526381
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: She Writes Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 13 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary