Rule of the Bone
Jamaica, fiction
Americans in fiction
Homeless persons
New york (state), fiction
Teenage boys
Americans
New york (n.y.), fiction
Travel
New York Times reviewed
Fiction, general
Fiction
Chappie, the precociously wise narrator of Rule of the Bone, is a punked-out teenager living in an upstate New York trailer park with his mother and abusive stepfather. Almost accidentally he slips into drugs and petty crime. Rejected by his parents, out of school and in trouble with the police, he …
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