5/30/2023 0 Comments Perfect book rachel joyce![]() ![]() ![]() Unable to trust his parents, he confides in his best friend, James, and together they concoct a plan. What happened and who is to blame? Over the days and weeks that follow, Byron's perfect world is shattered. While his mother seems not to have noticed, eleven-year-old Byron understands that from now on nothing can be the same. In one terrible moment, something happens, something completely unexpected and at odds with life as Byron understands it. ![]() But when the three of them leave home, driving into a dense summer fog, the morning takes an unmistakable turn. Byron Hemmings wakes to a morning that looks like any other: his school uniform draped over his wooden desk chair, his sister arguing over the breakfast cereal, the click of his mother's heels as she crosses the kitchen. A spellbinding novel that will resonate with readers of Mark Haddon, Louise Erdrich, and John Irving, Perfect tells the story of a young boy who is thrown into the murky, difficult realities of the adult world with far-reaching consequences. ![]()
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