Untouchable by Scott O'connor

Untouchable by Scott O'connor

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Untouchable by Scott O'connor

It is the autumn of 1999. A year has passed since Lucy Darby's unexpected death, leaving her husband David and son Whitley to mend the gaping hole in their lives. David, a trauma-site cleanup technician, spends his nights expunging the violent remains of strangers, helping their families to move on, though he is unable to do the same. Whitley--an 11-year-old social pariah known simply as The Kid--hasn't spoken since his mother's death. Instead, he communicates through a growing collection of notebooks, living in a safer world of his own silent imagining.

As the impending arrival of Y2K casts a shadow of uncertainty around them, their own precarious reality begins to implode. Questions pertaining to the events of Lucy's death begin to haunt David, while The Kid, who still believes his mother is alive, enlists the help of his small group of misfit friends to bring her back. As David continues to lose his grip on reality and The Kid's sense of urgency grows, they begin to uncover truths that will force them to confront their deepest fears about each other and the wounded family they are trying desperately to save.

An amazing new talent [in] the world of fiction (Library Journal), Scott O'Connor is the author of the novel Untouchable and the novella Among Wolves. The New York Times said of Untouchable: O'Connor speaks softly and somehow manages to make something beautiful of unspeakable matters...in a voice so insistently stirring, you want to lean in close to catch every word. He was born in Syracuse, New York, the son of an air-traffic controller and a preschool teacher. He lives with his family in Los Angeles.
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ISBN 13 9781935562504
ISBN 10 1935562509
Title Untouchable
Author Scott O'connor
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Tyrus Books
Year published 2012-03-01
Number of pages 384
Prizes Winner of Discover Great New Writers (Fiction) 2011
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