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Being God — B.A. Binns

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Paperback editions:

  • Trade Paperback
  • Mar-2013
  • Allthecolorsoflove
  • ISBN: 0988182114
  • ISBN13: 9780988182110

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Hardcover editions:

  • Hardcover
  • Feb-2013
  • Allthecolorsoflove
  • ISBN: 1942641915
  • ISBN13: 9781942641919

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eBook editions:

  • eBook (Kindle)
  • Feb-2013
  • AllTheColorsOfLove

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Description
Seventeen-year-old Malik Kaplan is the bully of Chicago's Farrington High School. Malik has a cross to bear, or maybe it's a Star of David; being the black teenaged son of a Catholic mother and Jewish father frequently makes life confusing. His grandfather, uncle, and older brother all ruled as the BAMFs at Farrington. Only his father is a “forgotten Kaplan,” and seems disinterested in his only surviving son. Malik is determined to be the worst of the worst and not repeat his father's mistakes; even if that costs him the people he cares about. At least he can drink. Alcohol keeps him going; alcohol is destroying his life. But he doesn't see any problem, not even after he finds himself in court, shouldering the blame for someone else's crime. Suddenly he's faced with court-ordered community service shepherding an angry ten-year-old who hates the world, an “offer he can't refuse” from the boy's gang leader brother, and an opponent he can't crush: Barney, a fourteen-year-old girl who watched her alcoholic father abuse and murder her mother. She wants nothing to do with any bad boy, especially not one who thinks drinking is the way to forget his sins. Malik and Barney are forced to work together to help the kid and themselves escape the pull of the gang, and to rediscover the real meaning of family and friendship.
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