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Citrus County by Brandon, John (John Owen); Shore, Keith is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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<p><P>There shouldn&#8217;t be a Citrus County. Teenage romance should be difficult, but not this difficult. Boys like Toby should cause trouble but not this much. The moon should glow gently over children safe in their beds. Uncles in their rockers should be kind. Teachers should guide and inspire. Manatees should laze and palm trees sway and snakes keep to their shady spots under the azalea thickets. The air shouldn&#8217;t smell like a swamp. The stars should twinkle. Shelby should be her own hero, the first hero of Citrus County. She should rescue her sister from underground, rescue Toby from his life. Her destiny should be a hero&#8217;s destiny.</p><h3>The New York Times - Daniel Handler</h3><p>With <i>Citrus County</i> John Brandon joins the ranks of writers like Denis Johnson, Joy Williams, Mary Robison and Tom Drury, writers whose wild flights feel more likely than a heap of what we've come to expect from literature, by calmly reminding us that the world is far more startling than most fiction is. He subverts the expectations of an adolescent novel by staying true to the wild incongruities of adolescence, and subverts the expectations of a crime novel by giving us people w

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Author

Brandon, John (John Owen); Shore, Keith

Publisher

McSweeneys Rectangulars

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9781934781531

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Children'S, Literary Fiction, Fiction

Rating

3.62 / 5 (1,594 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13