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SETTING FREE THE KITES
From the author of the “lush, epic” (Sara Gruen) novel A Good American comes an evocative and insightful story of the power of friendship between two boys connected by sorrow, danger and joy: In SETTING FREE THE KITES, Alex George has written a captivating coming-of-age novel and a haunting exploration of the power that joy plays in our lives. Alex George is the bestselling and acclaimed author of A Good American. A native Briton, he currently lives in Missouri. He was named as one of Britain’s top ten thirtysomething novelists by the Times of London and was also named as the Independent on Sunday’s “face to watch” for fiction in its Fresh Talent feature.
In 1976, Robert Carter is just an ordinary kid growing up in a small town in Maine. Unexceptional and unathletic, he’s the favorite target of the class bully, and as the eighth grade begins, he’s resigned to another year of humiliation. That is, until Nathan Tilley moves to town, sits down next to Robert in class, and changes his life forever.
Nathan is everything Robert isn’t: confident and curious, daring and forward-thinking. He’s also obsessed with flight, thanks to his father’s fascination with kites, which he flies at the beach near the Tilleys’ home.
When tragedy casts shadows over both of their families, Robert and Nathan find themselves forced to confront their families’ grief. At the same time, they both take summer jobs at Fun-A-Lot, the town’s amusement park owned by Robert’s father. As the summer progresses and Robert and Nathan begin to see the world very differently, it becomes clear that hope has both the power to redeem and the power to obliterate, and that the line between devotion and obsession can be very thin.
Alex George is the bestselling and acclaimed author of A Good American. A native Briton, he currently lives in Missouri. He was named as one of Britain’s top ten thirtysomething novelists by the Times of London and was also named as the Independent on Sunday’s “face to watch” for fiction in its Fresh Talent feature. He read law at Oxford University and worked for eight years as a corporate lawyer in London and Paris. He moved to the United States in 2003 and re-qualified as a US attorney. In addition to writing, he also runs his own law firm.
Nathan is everything Robert isn’t: confident and curious, daring and forward-thinking. He’s also obsessed with flight, thanks to his father’s fascination with kites, which he flies at the beach near the Tilleys’ home.
When tragedy casts shadows over both of their families, Robert and Nathan find themselves forced to confront their families’ grief. At the same time, they both take summer jobs at Fun-A-Lot, the town’s amusement park owned by Robert’s father. As the summer progresses and Robert and Nathan begin to see the world very differently, it becomes clear that hope has both the power to redeem and the power to obliterate, and that the line between devotion and obsession can be very thin.
Alex George is the bestselling and acclaimed author of A Good American. A native Briton, he currently lives in Missouri. He was named as one of Britain’s top ten thirtysomething novelists by the Times of London and was also named as the Independent on Sunday’s “face to watch” for fiction in its Fresh Talent feature. He read law at Oxford University and worked for eight years as a corporate lawyer in London and Paris. He moved to the United States in 2003 and re-qualified as a US attorney. In addition to writing, he also runs his own law firm.
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