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Can I read Island on EtoBox?
Island by Patrick Downes is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Island about?
A teenaged boy struggles as he watches his family and relationships fracture after the death of his mother, and is now faced with the terrible possibility that his twin brother may have just killed their father. Seventeen-year-old Rad comes home to find his father lying broken and dead at the bottom of the ravine behind their house. Rad’s twin brother, shaken but very much alive, had watched their father fall. Desperate to understand what has happened before calling the police, Rad confronts his brother and the complicated landscape of their past. He reconstructs not just the circumstances leading to his father’s death, but the history of his family. How can a family simply disintegrate? Were they ever happy, or were the roots of unhappiness always there? What plagued his father? What plagues Rad? As the time comes to do the right thing, the question remains. Did his brother kill their father? And what will happen to the boys now?
Who reads Island?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Patrick Downes
- Publisher
- Groundwood Books Ltd;Groundwood Books : House of Anansi Press
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781773061931
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Thriller, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.69 / 5 (227 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14