Synopsis
Carson Smith is resigned to spending his summer in Billings, Montana, helping his mom take care of his father, a dying alcoholic he doesn't really know. Then he meets Aisha Stinson, a beautiful girl who has run away from her difficult family, and Pastor John Logan, who's long held a secret regarding Carson's grandfather, who disappeared without warning or explanation thirty years before. Together, Carson and Aisha embark on an epic road trip to find the answers that might save Carson's dad, restore his fragmented family, and discover the "Porcupine of Truth" in all of their lives.
My Review
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
4 Platypires for The Porcupine of Truth by Bill Konigsberg
“I worry sometimes that our world actually values a lack of intelligence. Like we are considered normal if we spend our time thinking about what one of the Kardashians wears to a party, and we are considered strange if we wonder whether a bee’s parents grieve if said bee dives into the Central Park Reservoir and never makes it back to the hive.”
I picked up Porcupine after attending a teen book con in my city of Houston. I was pretty excited to meet the author after reading Opening Straight, a book I enjoyed very much. I actually picked this book up having no clue what it was about but I am so glad I did.
I loved the characters in this novel. The characters and their banter with each other were realistic. They were broken characters going along a journey into finding their own truth. This a book about religion, friendship, loss and family that I think teens and adults would find relatable.
This a book that I would highly recommend.
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