Crowe, Chris Death
Coming Up the Hill, 202 pgs. Houghton
Mifflin Harcourt, 2014. $16.99 Content: Language: PG-13 (12 swears); Mature
Content: PG; Violence: PG.
Ashe is
seventeen and America is in the middle of Vietnam and the Civil Rights
movement. His own life mirrors the
unrest and war of America because his parents are on the brink of divorce. He has realized that his parents don’t love
each other since he was a kid, but his parents’ differing political views causes
a permanent rift in their fragile family.
Ashe meets a new hippie girl and they confide in each other their fears
and hopes.
This book is fantastic. It is written in haiku and the simple and
poetic telling of Ashe’s story and awareness of the unrest in America draw deep
feelings as you read. I wish I was still
teaching so I could share this story with my students. The mature content and violence is cheating
on a spouse and the assassinations of Dr. King and Robert Kennedy—none of which
is explained graphically.
MS,
HS-ESSENTIAL. Reviewer, C. Peterson.
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