BRICKS: What Little Girls are NOT Made of

By B SHAWN CLARK

In the 1970s seaside town of Largo, Florida, a teenager discovers why his mom called his first real girlfriend a "brick shithouse."

Based on (sometimes faulty) recollections of real events, BRICKS is a memoir of sorts that introduces young readers of today to a place where their parents (or grandparents) lived when THEY were t

• Language: English
• Publisher: Aggregate Books
• Release date: Aug 9, 2022
• ISBN: 9781734308389

B SHAWN CLARK

Author of the Cli-Fi novel 20/20, attorney turned novelist B Shawn Clark shares his entry in the New Shape Prize competition in a hybrid work of literary non-fiction that proposes a framework for dealing with the impending doom of climate catastrophe that is poised to wipe Homo sapiens off the face of the planet once and for all, taking the rest of all living things down with them. Clark suggests the way forward to attempt to solve this planetary crisis is through use of a 12-step program known to lead humans off a path of self-destruction.

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