Soul Catcher
Jan 2011 · Blue Table Books
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"Awesome and revealing."*Fifteen-year-old Kate Steiner is not sure why she is suddenly boarding at an East Coast school for troubled kids, though there is evidence that her lawyer parents are having marital problems. It is the mid-1970's, and at the progressive school where she has landed, Kate is initiated into a stratified society inhabited by kids who fell through the cracks."We were delinquents, addicts, mental cases, orphans and kids from broken homes."Kate must grapple with moral ambiguities when she discovers that Patrick, her first boyfriend, is also a slip-sliding drug addict. In the loosening of family ties, and faced with an inscrutable headmaster, uncommunicative parents and a doomed first love, Kate makes shadowy passage through her questioning adolescence...finding solace in a 'soul catcher' dangling inside a geodesic dome built by a quirky boy who surprises her with an unexpected friendship.PRAISE FOR KATIA LIEF'S NOVELS"Taut, clean storytelling." -Publishers Weekly"A realistic, believable boarding school, where adolescent angst and the trauma of growing up at a breakneck pace is presented...as the difficult transition it is." -Small Press Magazine*Elizabeth, reader (amazon.com)
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September 25, 2012
I do not recommend to people like myself who are struggling with mental health problems, or those with addiction issues. The ending is very depressing, focusing needlessly on despair and mortality. The first 3/4 are good but the last 1/4 is a real downer. Proceed with caution
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November 2, 2012
I agree with Beth. It's good enough, I suppose, but I really wouldn't recommend it to anyone who can actually personally identify with Kate. You might be seeing your shrink before your next appointment. But that's what makes it a good book, I think. It's messed up. Like life.
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June 25, 2012
Kinda cute story..but drags on and not much of a plot or ending...
About the author
Katia Lief is the international bestselling author of numerous novels, including most recently A Map of the Dark (pseudonymously as Karen Ellis). She teaches fiction writing at The New School in Manhattan, and lives with her family in Brooklyn. Learn more at katialief.com
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