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ID: 605188
Title: Copy Boy: A Novel
Author: Shelley Blanton-Stroud
Narrator: April Doty
Format: Unabridged
Length: 09:20:05
Language: English
Release date: 06-23-20
Publisher: Findaway Voices
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Historical Fiction, Detective Stories, Coming of Age
Summary:
This is Raymond Chandler for feminists. Sharma Shields, author ofThe Cassandra
'An engrossing work of fiction. An expressive and striking story that examines what one does for family and for oneself.' --Kirkus Reviews
Underneath a neatly crafted thriller is a deeper story about social mobility, gender inequality, and the higher hurdles women particularly those of a lower class are sometimes forced to jump over in order to make a name for themselves. Paperback Paris
Janes a very brave boy. And a very difficult girl. Shell become a remarkable woman, an icon of her century, but thats a long way off.
Not my fault, she thinks, dropping a bloody crowbar in the irrigation ditch after Daddy. She steals Mommas Ford and escapes to Depression-era San Francisco, where she fakes her way into work as a newspaper copy boy.
Everythings looking up. Shes climbing the ladder at the paper, winning validation, skill, and connections with the artists and thinkers of her day. But then Daddy reappears on the papers front page, his arm around a girl whos just been beaten into a coma one block from Janes newspaperhit in the head with a crowbar.
Janes got to find Daddy before he finds her, and before everyone else finds her out. Shes got to protect her invented identity. This is what she thinks she wants. Its definitely what her dead brother wants.
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