Crazy /

Fifteen-year-old loner Jason lives a precarious life with his mentally ill father, who thinks he is an Argonaut and wears tinfoil ear guards as he prepares for imminent attack from the Furies. When Jason was 6, his father tried to bury him alive, and his nightmares of suffocation continue to haunt h...

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Main Author: Nolan, Han
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston [Mass.] : Harcourt, 2010.
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