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Saints of the Household
Ari Tison
Ages: 14+
Published: 2023
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux BFYR/Macmillan
ISBN: 978-0-374-38949-9
Keywords: Indigenous Americans, Domestic violence, Brothers, Art
Brothers Max and Jay, of Costa Rican Bribri descent, each struggle to process the aftermath of violence in their small Minnesota town. Alternating perspectives told in prose and verse.