When the Finch Rises

Name: When the Finch Rises
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Jack Riggs
ISBN: 9781436147767

Author: Jack Riggs

Narrator: Tom Stechschulte

Unabridged: 7 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 04/08/2016

Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction

Synopsis

Jack Riggs has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, was a finalist in the Glimmer Train Fiction Contest, and has been published in many literary journals. Lyrical yet disturbing, When the Finch Rises is a journey into the shadowlands of childhood. Twelve-year-old Raybert Williams and Palmer Conroy are best friends. But when Palmer shows Raybert an old photograph, it will color forever how Raybert sees his world.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Benjamin

Raybert tells of his friendship with Palmer Conroy from when they first meet at the age of six years. His first encounter with his friend being Palmer's appearance on his first day at Raybert's School, the day President Kennedy is assassinated, latter the same day Palmer just walks into Raybert's tr......more

Goodreads review by Nomanisan

Eh. That's about it--it was neither great nor really bad. I read this book because the author taught my daughter writing during a summer camp for the gifted at Brenau University years ago. She was given the book as a Christmas present and just happened to recognize the name; she thought it was prett......more