General YA Fiction
VG/A Konigsberg,
Bill. Porcupine of Truth. Alfred A.
Levine, 2015. 978-0-545-64893-6. 17.99.
Rather
than getting to spend summer at home in New York, Carson is stuck in Billings,
Montana with his mom and estranged father.
He has not seen his father in fourteen years, and who is now dying of
alcoholism. While his mom settles in,
Carson is left at ZooMontana, where he befriends Aisha, the most beautiful girl
he’s ever met. The two become friends
right away. When Carson finds out that Aisha has been living at the zoo ever since
her father kicked her out for being lesbian, he invites her to stay with his
family. While the two are cleaning up,
they discover papers about Carson’s grandparents –divorce papers and old
letters. Carson’s father claimed that
his father, Russell Smith, abandoned him when he was young. His father just
disappeared when he was seventeen and he never heard or saw him again. Obviously, the disappearance of his father
still haunts him, and despite Carson’s father’s plea to leave the past alone,
Carson decides if there’s any chance of reuniting his father and grandfather
before his father dies, he’s going to try his best. So, Carson and Aisha set off together in
Aisha’s red Dodge Neon with the “porcupine of truth” to embark on an
unforgettable road trip, retracing the same journey that his grandfather took
so many years before. A heart-wrenching,
inspiring novel by Konigsberg.
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