Bloody Awful in Different Ways — Andrev Walden

I m fizzing I love not being his son Yes I can feel it in my whole body A great thrill as if an adventure has begun As if I m the boy in a book about a boy who finds out his dad is the king of a magical and distant land Christmas 1983 In the aftermath of yet another furious argument seven year old Andrev s mother lets him in on a secret his father is in fact not his father And so begins a new kind of childhood in which fathers come and go arriving in red Volvos and sweeping his mother off her feet Fathers can be magicians or murderers artists or thieves and like growing pains or the weather they appear uninvited and leave without warning Fathers are drawn to his mother like moths to a flame but even she can t control how they behave Vivid and joyful raw and tender Bloody Awful in Different Ways is a novel about growing up in the chaos of social change about how love begins and ends and above all about men Because after all you learn an awful lot about this strange species when you have seven fathers in seven years Tanıtım Bülteninden