Still Life with Tornado
by A. S. King
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appears in Young Adult and Fiction.
A heartbreaking and mindbending story of a talented teenage artist's awakening to the brokenness of her family from critically acclaimed awardwinner A.S. King.Sixteenyearold Sarah can't draw. This is a problem, because as long as she can remember, she has "done the art." She thinks she's having an existential crisis. And she might be right; she ...
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appears in Young Adult and Fiction.
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