Compound Fracture

NEW from bestselling and award-winning author Andrew Joseph White! A queer Appalachian thriller that pulls no punchesΓÇöfollowing a trans autistic teen who’s drawn into the generational struggle between the rural poor and those who exploit them. On the night Miles AbernathyΓÇösixteen-year-old socialist and proud West VirginianΓÇöcomes out as trans to his parents,he sneaks off to a partycarrying evidence that may finally turn the tide of the blood feud plaguing Twist Creek: Photos that prove the countyΓÇÖs Sheriff Davies was responsible for the so-called ΓÇ£accidentΓÇ¥ that injured his dadkilled othersand crushed their grassroots efforts to unseat him. The feud began a hundred years ago when MilesΓÇÖs great-great-grandfatherSaint Abernathyincited a minersΓÇÖ rebellion that ended with a public execution at the hands of law enforcement. NowMiles becomes the feudΓÇÖs latest victim as the sheriffΓÇÖs son and his friends sniff out the evidencefollow him through the woodsand beat him nearly to death. In the hospitalthe ghost of a soot-covered man hovers over MilesΓÇÖs bedside while Sheriff Davies threatens Miles into silence. But when Miles accidently kills one of the boys who hurt himhe learns of other folks in Twist Creek who want out from under the sheriffΓÇÖs heel. To free their families from this cycle of crueltytheyΓÇÖre willing to put everything on the lineΓÇöis Miles? A visceralunabashedly political page-turner that wonΓÇÖt let you go until youΓÇÖve reached the endCompound Fracture is not for the faint of heartbut it is for every reader who’s ready to fight for a better world. Hand this story to teens pushing for radical change.