<p><strong>Award-winning author Darren Groth's epic story of a dog who will protect the last remaining member of his family, an intellectually disabled boy, at all costs as human civilization crumbles around them.</strong></p> <p>In a time of isolation and scarcity, a regressive regime rules with absolute power, turning neighbour against neighbour and crushing dissidence with deadly force. A microcosm of this monstrous time: the tiny Pacific Northwest town of Gilder.</p> <p>In a house on the fringes of the decimated hamlet, Tao-a failed service dog turned pet-wakes to find his leash tied to the stairs, his hind leg broken and his family killed. With the world he knows shattered, there is one course of action: lay with his slain masters and wait for the enemy-the "hounds"-to return and end his life.</p> <p>But it is not the hounds that find him-it is Kasper, fifteen years old, disabled, limited ability to speak, sole survivor of the family. With the discovery of <em>Boy</em>, Tao understands he now has a duty: guide the last living member of his pack through the ravaged streets of Gilder to safety. The destination? The only refuge he can conceive in a world gone mad? The site of his training five years before.</p> <p><em>Boy in the Blue Hammock</em> is an epic tale of loss and loyalty, of dissent and destruction, of assumption and ableism. With a powerful narrative and evocative prose, the novel poses one of the important questions of our time: When evil silences the people, who will protect those without a voice?</p>

Binding: Paperback;208 pages; Publisher: Nightwood Editions; Classification: Children?s / Teenage fiction and true stories; Weight: 338 g; Dimensions: 140 x 216 x 16

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