{"product_id":"being-fishkill-9780763684426","title":"Being Fishkill","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Ruth Lehrer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Candlewick Press (MA)\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Social Themes - Physical \u0026amp; Emotional Abuse (see also Social\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFishkill Carmel fends for herself, with her fists if need be -- until a thwarted lunch theft introduces her to strange, sunny Duck-Duck and a chance for a new start.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBorn in the backseat of a moving car, Carmel Fishkill was unceremoniously pushed into a world that refuses to offer her security, stability, love. At age thirteen, she begins to fight back. Carmel Fishkill becomes Fishkill Carmel, who deflects her tormenters with a strong left hook and conceals her secrets from teachers and social workers. But Fishkill's fierce defenses falter when she meets eccentric optimist Duck-Duck Farina, and soon they, along with Duck-Duck's mother, Molly, form a tentative family, even as Fishkill struggles to understand her place in it. This fragile new beginning is threatened by the reappearance of Fishkill's unstable mother -- and by unfathomable tragedy. Poet Ruth Lehrer's young adult debut is a stunning, revelatory look at what defines and sustains \"family.\" And, just as it does for Fishkill, meeting Duck-Duck Farina and her mother will leave readers forever changed.","brand":"Candlewick Press (MA)","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45082511310999,"sku":"9780763684426","price":875.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780763684426.webp?v=1767634787","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/being-fishkill-9780763684426","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}