Book description
It's June of 1965 when Wrecker enters the world. The war is raging in
Vietnam, San Francisco is tripping toward flower power, and Lisa Fay - a
young innocent from a family farm down south - is knocked nearly
sideways by life as a single mother in a city she could barely manage to
navigate as just one.
Three years later, she's alone again. Kids aren't allowed in prison. And
Wrecker, scared silent, furious, and hell-bent on breaking every last
thing that crosses his path, is shipped off to live with distant
relatives in the wilds of Humboldt County.
Wrecker
is the story of this nearly-broken boy whose presence turns a motley
group of isolated eccentrics into a real family. Real enough to make
mistakes. Real enough to stick together in spite of everything ready to
tear them apart. For Melody, for Len, for Willow and Ruth, for Meg and
Johnnie Appleseed, life will never again be the same once Wrecker signs
on. And for Lisa Fay, there's one thought keeping her alive through
fifteen years of hard time. One day? She'll find her son and bring him
home. A beautiful, big-hearted novel Wrecker
earned Summer Wood the 2007 Literary Gift of Freedom, from the A Room
of Her Own (AROHO) Foundation. Her first novel, Arroyo
, was published by Chronicle Books in 2001. She lives in New Mexico.
