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Hardcover Trash Book

ISBN: 0763626244

ISBN13: 9780763626242

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Condition: Very Good

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Amid gritty free verse, Darrow interweaves beautifully crafted forms such as the villanelle, sestina and pantoum, whose intricate patterns suit Sissy's mournful voice. -- Publishers Weekly

For sixteen-year-old Sissy and her brother Boy, trash is a reminder of one too many sorry foster placements they've endured, a way of life they can't wait to escape. Now on the run in search of their big sister Raynell, ironically they are forced...

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Fiction Teen & Young Adult

Customer Reviews

2 ratings

Courtesy of Teens Read Too

TRASH is a verse novel that continues the story of Boy and Sissy Lexie, first introduced in Sharon Darrow's novel The Painters of Lexieville. It's certainly not necessary to have read that first book (I haven't)--but I'm planning on it now that I've read this one. The best part of this book, I think, is the characters, and I'd love to read more about them. Sure, the story is interesting, too: Boy and Sissy are teenagers now. They've been shipped around to various foster homes in a way that makes them feel like trash, especially since their mother discarded them like it. Now they're living with the town trash collectors, a placement that seems especially fit using that comparison. It'll never be home. Boy says that home is where their big sister Raynell is, and Sissy thinks it's the truth. So what do they do? They run away and go to find her. They think she's in Little Rock, but it turns out that she moved to St. Louis and their foster parents didn't deliver the message. They don't know how to find her, so they start saving their money, and when they have enough, they go to St. Louis and search her out. In St. Louis, they have a family with Raynell, her husband, Jobe, and their baby, Kylie. They also have new friends: Dolores and Tyrone. The four of them run around the city at night, climbing, jumping, and painting. They take new names with which to sign their graffiti: Boy and Sissy, who have always wanted real names, are now Atenz and Skye. And then something unthinkable happens. Something terrible: Boy doesn't look where he's jumping, and in that split second of not looking, things change forever. Sissy's life will never, ever be the same. Both the story and characters in TRASH are interesting. This is a story well worth reading. Reviewed by: Jocelyn Pearce

Sharon Darrow's TRASH

If ever a case may be made for spare, TRASH is the book. The economical language keeps the reader focused along with the arrangement of that language on the page. Instead of cutesy manipulation of words, emotions drive their placement so hang onto your hat, so integrated are the action and the emotion with the format. With artistic expression part of the theme, the author becomes illustrator as well with her original use of type, punctuation, paragraphs, lists: each compelling for its own raison d'etre. I've not read a more exciting, intriguing novel in verse. Don't be deceived by the appearance of simplicity, the source of its power.
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