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Easy reading is damn hard writing - Nathaniel Hawthorne
BEING GOD is here!!
BEING GOD is not about religion. But it is about the hope of redemption.Seventeen-year-old Malik Kaplan, has a cross to bear, or maybe it’s a Star of David; being the black teenaged son of a Catholic mother and Jewish father frequently makes life confusing. The men in his family have always been the BAMFs at Farrington. Only his father is a “forgotten Kaplan,” and seems disinterested in his only surviving son.
Malik, the villain of Pull, is determined to be the worst of the worst and not repeat his father’s mistakes; even if that costs him the people he cares about. At least he can drink. Alcohol keeps him going; alcohol is destroying his life. But he doesn’t see any problem, not even after he finds himself in a court of law, shouldering the blame for someone else’s crime. Suddenly he’s faced with court-ordered community service shepherding an angry ten-year-old who hates the world, an “offer he can’t refuse” from the boy’s gang leader brother, and an opponent he can’t crush: Barney, a fourteen-year-old girl who watched her alcoholic father abuse and murder her mother. She wants nothing to do with any bad boy, especially not one who thinks drinking is the way to forget his sins.
Barney is a little older, and a lot wiser, than the girl Malik manipulated in Pull. She isn't about to let any guy push her around again. But is she ready to defy her brother and work with Malik to help the angry kid, to save themselves from the pull of the gang, and to rediscover the real meaning of family and friendship.
You also get more of Julian Morales and Nicole Mitchell a.k.a. Red Stripe.
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