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The lives of congenial American fly-fisherman Billy and his younger sister Alice meander alongside the Susquehanna River in this offbeat coming-of-age novel of death, madness, and fishing by debut author Karen Fielding. What starts out as a frolic of losers and drifters along the American riverscape flows into something more sinister when twelve-year-old Billy Sycamore encounters a stranger in the woods, while Alice is left to deal with the fall-out. In the spirit of Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America and idiosyncratic like a George Saunders story, American Sycamore is a funny a No library descriptions found. |
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This book hit home in a way that i did expect ... and yet, much more in ways that had me gulping back tears and grinning alone. I related to the family intricacies of life, i related to the big brother younger sister relationship, i related to the tragedy the laughter the sadness and the unspoken ties.
I can see this book as a must-read on a school reading list. I can see this as a powerful movie with an emotional punch.