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Among the clients and staff at Upward Bound are Carlos, a charismatic aide who lost his mother as a boy, and Jorge, who is gentle, nonspeaking and prone to escape despite Carlos’s best efforts. Tom, a beautiful young man with cerebral palsy, pines for Ann, the lifeguard for the summer who feels out of her depth. Then there’s Dave, the centre’s director. He wanted to be an actor, but finds himself on a very different path.
Woody Brown’s vibrant and profoundly moving debut nove immerses us in life as we have never experienced it before. ‘Gives us the world from the perspective of someone rarely noticed or understood .. . Brilliant’ RIVKA GALCHEN ‘A luminous novel of human connection and hope that will stay with me’ CECILE PIN ‘Wonderfully inspirational’ PAUL BEATTY ‘A complicated joy’ RODDY DOYLE
