The Smell of Other People's Houses - Bonnie-sue Hitchcock

\n \nBonnie-Sue Hitchcock's Alaska is beautiful and wholly unfamiliar.... A thrilling, arresting debut. --Gayle Forman, New York Times bestselling author of If I Stay and I Was Here \n \n A] singular debut. . . . Hitchcock] weav es] the alternating voices of four young people into a seamless and continually surprising story of risk, love, redemption, catastrophe, and sacrifice. --The Wall Street Journal \n \nThis deeply moving and authentic debut set in 1970s Alaska is for fans of Rainbow Rowell, Louise Erdrich, Sherman Alexie, and Benjamin Alire Saenz. Intertwining stories of love, tragedy, wild luck, and salvation on the edge of America's Last Frontier introduce a writer of rare talent. \n \nRuth has a secret that she can't hide forever. Dora wonders if she can ever truly escape where she comes from, even when good luck strikes. Alyce is trying to reconcile her desire to dance, with the life she's always known on her family's fishing boat. Hank and his brothers decide it's safer to run away than to stay home--until one of them ends up in terrible danger. \n \nFour very different lives are about to become entangled. This unforgettable William C. Morris Award finalist is about people who try to save each other--and how sometimes, when they least expect it, they succeed. \n \n \nPraise: \nWilliam C. Morris Finalist \nShortlisted for the Carnegie Medal \nAmelia Elizabeth Walden Book Award for Young Adult Fiction \nTayshas Reading List--Top 10 List \nNew York Public Library's Best 50 Books for Teens \nChicago Public Library, Best of the Best List \nShelf Awareness, Best Children's & Teen Books of the Year \nNominated to the Oklahoma Sequoya Book Award Master List \nNominated to the Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award \n \nHitchcock's debut resonates with the timeless quality of a classic. This is a fascinating character study--a poetic interweaving of rural isolation and coming-of-age. --John Corey Whaley, award-winning author of Where Things Come Back and Highly Illogical Behavior \n \nAs an Alaskan herself, Bonnie Sue Hitchcock is able to bring alive this town, and this group of poor teens and their families that live there. --Bustle.com\n