Broken: A Novel
Eleven-year-old Skunk Cunningham and her neighbors in a suburban British community find their lives thrown into turmoil as they are forced to deal with their horrible neighbor, Bob Oswald, the sociopathic single father of five daughters, and his penchant for violence after he unexpectedly beats up teenager Rick Buckley.
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Until that fateful afternoon, Skunk Cunningham had been a normal little girl, playing on the curb in front of her house. Rick Buckley had been a normal geeky teenager, hosing off his brand-new car. Bob Oswald had been a normal sociopathic single father of five slutty daughters, charging furiously down the sidewalk. Then Bob was beating Rick to a bloody pulp, right there in the Buckleys' driveway, and life on Drummond Square was never the same again.Inspired by Harper Lee's classic To Kill a Mockingbird, Clay's brilliantly observed and darkly funny novel follows the sudden unraveling of a suburban community after a single act of thoughtless cruelty.
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