March 20, 2019
 March 20, 2019 This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that we know people will be talking about this spring. Read more about it, and enter our Spring Preview Contest by Thursday, March 21st at 11:59am ET for a chance to win one of five copies of LAWN BOY by Jonathan Evison, which is now available in paperback. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!  Today's Featured Book and Contest:  “Jonathan Evison's voice is pure magic. In LAWN BOY, at once a vibrant coming-of-age novel and a sharp social commentary on class, Evison offers a painfully honest portrait of one young man's struggle to overcome the hand he's been dealt in life and reach for his dreams. It's a journey you won't want to miss, with an ending you won't forget.” For Mike Muñoz, a young Chicano living in Washington State, life has been a whole lot of waiting for something to happen. Not too many years out of high school and still doing menial work --- and just fired from his latest gig as a lawn boy on a landscaping crew --- he knows that he has to be the one to shake things up if he’s ever going to change his life. But how? In this funny, angry, touching and ultimately deeply inspiring novel, bestselling author Jonathan Evison takes the reader into the heart and mind of a young man on a journey to discover himself, a search to find the secret to achieving the American dream of happiness and prosperity. That’s the birthright for all Americans, isn’t it? If so, then what is Mike Muñoz’s problem? Though he tries time and again to get his foot on the first rung of that ladder to success, he can’t seem to get a break. But then things start to change for Mike, and after a raucous, jarring and challenging trip, he finds he can finally see the future and his place in it. And it’s looking really good. LAWN BOY is an important, entertaining and completely winning novel about social class distinctions, about overcoming cultural discrimination, and about standing up for oneself. Click here to enter the contest by 11:59am ET This is a special newsletter for our Spring Preview Contests, which will mail on select days through April 25th. This newsletter is separate from our weekly Bookreporter.com newsletter, which mails every Friday. You can subscribe to that newsletter here. Please visit the other websites in TheBookReportNetwork.com: 20SomethingReads.com, ReadingGroupGuides.com, GraphicNovelReporter.com, Teenreads.com, Kidsreads.com and AuthorsOnTheWeb.com. |
