Date of Review:

04/15/2008

Published Work:

A Difficult Boy

Reviewer:

Source:

Kirkus Reviews First Fiction Special Issue, page 17

Review Excerpt:

"What was the life of an indentured servant but that of a slave? M.P. Barker brings it ringingly, cringingly to life...A Difficult Boy hinges on the efforts of two boys—one social, one circumstantially remote, soon to be friends—to escape their brutalized existence... Then there is Ivy, a horse that bonds the boys
and provides their ticket out."

Link to Full Review:

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