The wicker king by k ancrum6/22/2023 ![]() ![]() As the story proceeds, the pages darken until the final acts play out in white type on black. Their story is presented in extremely short chapters punctuated by pictorial elements such as arrest reports, snapshots, and maps. Ancrum’s first novel, set in 2003, is an eerie piece of realistic fiction whose characters revel in intense emotions that will feel very authentic to high school teenagers. When Jack begins hallucinating, convinced that he sees into a parallel world in need of saving, August decides to believe him, charting a course that tests their friendship and their sanity. ![]() Their bromance, which enables both teens to survive parental neglect and absence, has a decidedly destructive bent that leads to their breaking into a toy factory together and also tattooing their names on each other. The boys are from opposite ends of the social spectrum, but their connection is deeper than friendship and more intense than the relationships either one has with members of the opposite sex. ![]() Jack, a popular, golden-haired white varsity rugby player, seems to have a perfect life, while August is a poor kid of mixed race who runs drugs in their high school to make extra money. ![]() Love and friendship are severely tested by mental illness tinged with fantasy.Īugust and Jack are the very definition of opposites attracting. ![]()
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