When his mother dies, Luke’s childhood is severed into a ‘before’ and ‘after’ and a chain of catastrophic events is unleashed that alters the course of his life. Navigating the upheaval of a broken foster system (that serves as a pipeline to poverty and incarceration in ‘juvie’), The Leaves is a meditation on loss, female friendship, and the role of the state. It reveals the cruelty and futility of the youth detention system, and the violence of the law itself.
The Leaves by Jacqueline Rule
Publisher: Spinifex Press
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 9781922964021
Distributor: Spinifex Press
Website: Spinifex Press
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