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Boy in the Wilderness: Summer Wood's "Wrecker"

Wrecker by Summer Wood Bloomsbury, 290 pages, $20 Taos-based writer Summer Wood's heartfelt new novel is about the unconventional upbringing of a boy named Wrecker, who is raised by a collection of well-intentioned semi-parents while he roams the redwood forests in the remote Lost Coast area of Northern California. Wrecker examines what happens when a task as complicated as raising a child is shared collectively, and delve ...

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