An intense, vibrant debut novel set among the back roads of Pennsylvania's mining country
Harley Altmyer should be in college drinking Rolling Rock and chasing girls. He should be freed from his closed-minded, stricken coal town, with its lack of jobs and no sense of humor. Instead, he's constantly reminded of just how messed up his life is.
With his mother in jail for killing his abusive father, Harley is an orphan with the responsibilities of an adult and the fiery, aggressive libido of a teenager. Just nineteen years old, he's marooned in the Pennsylvania backwoods caring for his three younger sisters, whose feelings about him range from stifling dependence to loathing. And once he develops an obsession with the sexy, melancholic mother of two living down the road, those Victoria's Secret catalogs just won't do the trick anymore. He wants Callie Mercer so badly he fears he will explode. But it's the family secrets, the lies, and the unspoken truths that light the fuse and erupt into a series of staggering surprises, leaving what's left of his family in tatters. Through every ordeal, the unforgettable Harley could never know that his endearing humor, his love for his sisters, and his bumbling heroics would redeem them all.
Funny and heartbreaking, O'Dell's pitch-perfect characters capture the maddening confusion of adolescence and the prickly nature of family with irony and unerring honesty. Back Roads is a riveting novel by a formidable new talent.
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One of my favs..."soon I'll be nothing but a skeleton of ash that the slightest touch will cause to crumble", it's weird that this confession of that boy would always come into my mind from nowhere...
评分One of my favs..."soon I'll be nothing but a skeleton of ash that the slightest touch will cause to crumble", it's weird that this confession of that boy would always come into my mind from nowhere...
评分One of my favs..."soon I'll be nothing but a skeleton of ash that the slightest touch will cause to crumble", it's weird that this confession of that boy would always come into my mind from nowhere...
评分One of my favs..."soon I'll be nothing but a skeleton of ash that the slightest touch will cause to crumble", it's weird that this confession of that boy would always come into my mind from nowhere...
评分One of my favs..."soon I'll be nothing but a skeleton of ash that the slightest touch will cause to crumble", it's weird that this confession of that boy would always come into my mind from nowhere...
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母亲因枪杀父亲而被判了终身监禁，大儿子照顾着三个妹妹，并和自己儿时的性幻想对象，一有夫之妇搞上了，然后发现父亲竟然是被二女儿用枪对着母亲时误杀的，原因仅仅是因为父亲常年虐待儿女时从来没打过母亲。大女儿从小被父亲打的时候就形成了恋兄癖，经常半夜去sexual harass哥哥，最终无法忍受哥哥与别的女人搞在一起而杀了那个女人，还把罪名留给哥哥，最终二女儿把哥哥和姐姐的性关系公诸于众，把他们都送进了大牢——what a fucking story
评分母亲因枪杀父亲而被判了终身监禁，大儿子照顾着三个妹妹，并和自己儿时的性幻想对象，一有夫之妇搞上了，然后发现父亲竟然是被二女儿用枪对着母亲时误杀的，原因仅仅是因为父亲常年虐待儿女时从来没打过母亲。大女儿从小被父亲打的时候就形成了恋兄癖，经常半夜去sexual harass哥哥，最终无法忍受哥哥与别的女人搞在一起而杀了那个女人，还把罪名留给哥哥，最终二女儿把哥哥和姐姐的性关系公诸于众，把他们都送进了大牢——what a fucking story
评分One of my favs..."soon I'll be nothing but a skeleton of ash that the slightest touch will cause to crumble", it's weird that this confession of that boy would always come into my mind from nowhere...
评分母亲因枪杀父亲而被判了终身监禁，大儿子照顾着三个妹妹，并和自己儿时的性幻想对象，一有夫之妇搞上了，然后发现父亲竟然是被二女儿用枪对着母亲时误杀的，原因仅仅是因为父亲常年虐待儿女时从来没打过母亲。大女儿从小被父亲打的时候就形成了恋兄癖，经常半夜去sexual harass哥哥，最终无法忍受哥哥与别的女人搞在一起而杀了那个女人，还把罪名留给哥哥，最终二女儿把哥哥和姐姐的性关系公诸于众，把他们都送进了大牢——what a fucking story
评分母亲因枪杀父亲而被判了终身监禁，大儿子照顾着三个妹妹，并和自己儿时的性幻想对象，一有夫之妇搞上了，然后发现父亲竟然是被二女儿用枪对着母亲时误杀的，原因仅仅是因为父亲常年虐待儿女时从来没打过母亲。大女儿从小被父亲打的时候就形成了恋兄癖，经常半夜去sexual harass哥哥，最终无法忍受哥哥与别的女人搞在一起而杀了那个女人，还把罪名留给哥哥，最终二女儿把哥哥和姐姐的性关系公诸于众，把他们都送进了大牢——what a fucking story
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