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In Pain & Wastings (Orca $9.95)
Ages 12+
In Pain & Wastings, Carrie Mac, a paramedic who's worked Vancouver's darker side, continues the trademark grit and grind of Charmed, Crush, and The Beckoners. In this latest book for reluctant teen-readers fifteen-year-old Ethan is stunned to discover the ambulance station is right in the middle of the Downtown Eastside. He'd willingly agreed to the ride-along in the ambulance but suddenly the alternative to going to court for breaking into an amusement park isn't looking so cushy. It's not the area's notoriety for "drugs and prostitutes and poverty and violence"; that's got him spooked. It's that Main and Hastings, or Pain and Wastings as it's more accurately called, is only a few blocks away. He doesn't want to remember what happened there, all those years ago, but as the twelve-hour shifts drag on and Holly, the paramedic, lets on she knew his mother, the demons descend.
978-1-55143-904-4
[BCBW 2008]
In Pain & Wastings, Carrie Mac, a paramedic who's worked Vancouver's darker side, continues the trademark grit and grind of Charmed, Crush, and The Beckoners. In this latest book for reluctant teen-readers fifteen-year-old Ethan is stunned to discover the ambulance station is right in the middle of the Downtown Eastside. He'd willingly agreed to the ride-along in the ambulance but suddenly the alternative to going to court for breaking into an amusement park isn't looking so cushy. It's not the area's notoriety for "drugs and prostitutes and poverty and violence"; that's got him spooked. It's that Main and Hastings, or Pain and Wastings as it's more accurately called, is only a few blocks away. He doesn't want to remember what happened there, all those years ago, but as the twelve-hour shifts drag on and Holly, the paramedic, lets on she knew his mother, the demons descend.
978-1-55143-904-4
[BCBW 2008]
Submitted on March 8, 2008 in By David.
