Jacksonville Public Library

Black dove, Colin McAdam

eng

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novels

Black dove

1365769080

Colin McAdam

"In a tall and narrow house, on a stained and busy street, live twelve-year-old Oliver and his father, a story-loving writer. Haunted by the ghost of his alcoholic mother, Oliver finds comfort in his father's impromptu tales of the Black Dove, an elusive flower that gives strength, and the girl who consumes it as she battles attackers and yearns for happier realms. Stories where lonely souls keep searching despite their losses and grief. Running from a bully one night, Oliver ducks into a junk shop owned by an enigmatic man. Soon, instead of hiding in the janitor's closet after school, Oliver spends afternoons in the shop, a cavernous place full of storied oddities and a hunter named Night, part panther, part hound, who proves to Oliver that the world holds invisible wonder. Oliver joins the shop owner in experimenting with dangerous forms of genetic editing in a neighborhood where magic is real, and the darker consequences of fantasies play out." --Book jacket