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Suckerpunch
Suckerpunch
Suckerpunch
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Suckerpunch

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It's the summer before senior year, and Marcus should be hanging out, filling his sketchbook, maybe asking a girl out for once. So why is he in a car with his brother, his brother's girl, and the pistol, headed straight toward his dad?

David Hernandez writes with striking lyricism and unfaltering poise. Suckerpunch marks the debut of a superb and important new literary talent.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherHarperTeen
Release dateOct 6, 2009
ISBN9780061985652
Suckerpunch
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David Hernandez

David Hernandez is a web designer and a poet whose collections include Always Danger, winner of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry, and A House Waiting for Music. He also wrote the novel Suckerpunch. He lives in Long Beach, California, with his wife, the writer Lisa Glatt. No More Us for You is his second novel.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    Marcus is happy. His father who hits his (not-so) little brother Enrique has finally left home. Marcus has to help out more and money is tight but he is happier without him. Evenso, Marcus' life is not all good: he keeps wondering if he should have done more to protect his brother -- the same brother who is now dating the girl Marcus likes. Enrique and Marcus decide to confront their violent father and give him a taste of his own medicine with a (fake) gun. But the trip and confrontation play out in ways they never expected.Excellent YA fodder; strong male Latino voice, great dialogue, good pacing. Adult language (lots of f bombs), sexual situations, drug use.. good for mature readers, esp. boys.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Hooked me in at the start but the way events followed each other more realistically than determined by a story shape didn't quite work for me. (There was a story shape, it was just more in the gaps between the events.)
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    this is a very real book and it has lots of action and entertainment in it

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