Wrecker A Novel
Wrecker A Novel by Summer Wood is a poignant exploration of childhood and resilience, published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA on February 20, 2011. This first U.S. edition spans 290 pages and is presented in English. The narrative follows Wrecker, an abandoned child whose life takes unexpected turns against the backdrop of 1965, a time marked by the Vietnam War and the burgeoning flower power movement in San Francisco. As Wrecker navigates the challenges of being uprooted from his birth mother, Lisa Fay, who struggles with her own difficulties, he finds himself bouncing through the foster care system before being sent to live with distant relatives in Humboldt County, California.
Readers will encounter Wrecker’s journey as he grapples with fear and anger, ultimately discovering a sense of belonging among a diverse group of eccentrics who come together to form a makeshift family. The novel delves into themes of love, abandonment, and the search for connection, offering a rich narrative that resonates with those interested in literary fiction. Through Wrecker’s experiences, Summer Wood invites readers to reflect on the complexities of family and the transformative power of community.
Official synopsis Publisher
After foster-parenting four young siblings a decade ago, Summer Wood tried to imagine a place where kids who are left alone or taken from their families would find the love and the family they deserve. For her, fiction was the tool to realize that world, and Wrecker, the central character in her second novel, is the abandoned child for whom life turns around in most unexpected ways. It’s June of 1965 when Wrecker enters the world. The war is raging in Vietnam, San Francisco is tripping toward flower power, and Lisa Fay, Wrecker’s birth mother, is knocked nearly sideways by life as a single parent in a city she can barely manage to navigate on her own. Three years later, she’s in prison, and Wrecker is left to bounce around in the system before he’s shipped off to live with distant relatives in the wilds of Humboldt County, California. When he arrives he’s scared and angry, exploding at the least thing, and quick to flee. Wrecker is the story of this boy and the motley group of isolated eccentrics who come together to raise him and become a family along the way.
For readers taken with the special boy at the center of The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, Wrecker will be a welcome companion.
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