Rotters Audiobook (Free)
- Kirby Heyborne
- 16 h 19 min
- Listening Library (Audio)
- 2011-04-05
Summary:
Grave-robbing. What kind of monster would do any such thing? It’s accurate that Leonardo da Vinci did it, Shakespeare published about it, as well as the resurrection males of nineteenth-century Scotland virtually made it an art. But none of the matters to Joey Crouch, a sixteen-year-old straight-A student living in Chicago with his solitary mom. Generally, Joey’s life is approximately playing the trumpet and preventing the daily humiliations of high school.
Everything changes when Joey’s mom dies within a tragic incident and he is delivered to rural Iowa to live with the father he hasn’t known, a strange, solitary guy with unimaginable secrets. At first, Joey’s father wants nothing in connection with him, but once father and son comprehend one another, Joey’s life takes a convert both macabre and exhilarating.
Daniel Kraus’s masterful plotting and memorable characters make Rotters a moving, terrifying, and unconventional epic about fathers and sons, complicated family ties, taboos, as well as the ever-present specter of mortality.