Wow! eBook
Just Gone
Author(s): William Kowalski (Author)
- Publisher: Rapid Reads
- Publication Date: 1 Sept. 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 107 pages
- ISBN-10: 1459803272
- ISBN-13: 9781459803275
Book Description
Mother Anqelique runs a shelter for homeless mothers and their children in a run-down inner-city area, where drug addiction, prostitution and random acts of violence are facts of life. One day, newly orphaned Jamal and his sister Chantay arrive at the shelter, hungry and scared. As Angelique tries to find a new home for them, she develops a fascination with seven-year-old Jamal, who seems to inhabit a world of his own. Jamal tells her fantastic stories of a man named Jacky Wacky, who protects the poor children of the city and punishes the adults who harm them. A God-fearing woman, Angelique doesn’t believe his stories at first. But strange things begin to happen whenever Jamal is around, and Mother Angelique is forced to admit that the world may contain stranger truths than her faith can explain.
Editorial Reviews
From the Inside Flap
homelessness, poverty, crime, magic realism
From the Back Cover
homelessness, poverty, crime, magic realism
