Cover of The Willow Tree

Book 1999

The Willow Tree

3.52 8 readers shelved it

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published
1999
  • Fiction
  • Inner cities
  • Hispanic American teenagers
  • Jews
  • Gangs
  • African American teenage boys
  • Fiction, general
  • African American youth

Bobby lay in bed listening to the rats scratching and squealing in the wall a few inches behind his head, the rats sounding as if they were ready to gnaw through his skull and chew on his eyeballs from the inside.