Shrug
It's Berkeley in the 1960s, and teenager Martha Goldenthal just wants to do well in high school and apply to college. But her home life is as crazy and chaotic as the streets of Berkeley. Maybe more so...
"Gripping from beginning to end, this beautifully written work is impossible to put down.” — The BookLife Prize
"A complex and compelling coming-of-age story... highly recommended." — The Wishing Shelf Book Awards
"Read this book. It will knock your socks off." — Laurin Porter, author, The Banished Prince: Time, Memory, and Ritual in the Late Plays of Eugene O'Neill
ORDER via book's website
Lisa Braver Moss
ORDER at your local independent bookstore
(via indiebound.com)
2020 IPPY Awards Gold Winner, YA Fiction
2020 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards Silver Winner, Fiction
2019 Moonbeam Award Gold Medal Winner, YA Fiction, Historical
2019 Best Book Award Finalist in YA Fiction
2019 Sarton Women's Book Awards Finalist, Historical Fiction
2020 Goethe Awards (post-1750 historical fiction) Finalist
2020 Independent Press Awards Distinguished Favorite, YA Fiction
2019 Wishing Shelf Book Awards Finalist
14th Annual NIEA Winner, Regional Fiction West
ORDER on amazon.com