Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library

The inexplicable logic of my life, a novel by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Label
The inexplicable logic of my life, a novel by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
The inexplicable logic of my life
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Oclc number
972646196
Responsibility statement
a novel by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Summary
"A story set on the American border with Mexico, about family and friendship, life and death, and one teen struggling to understand what his adoption does and doesn't mean about who he is"--, Provided by publisher
Table Of Contents
Front Cover; Front Flap; Front Matter; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Prologue; Part One; Life Begins; Me. Dad. Trouble.; Funerals and Faggots and Words; Dad and Sam and Me; Fito; WFTD = Origin; Fights. Fists. Shoes.; Mima; The Story of Me (Me Trying to Explain Things to Me); Photographs; Dad WFTD = College; Mima and Sam; The Letter; WFTD = Fear; Sam; WFTD = Maybe; Unwritten Rules; Fito; Sam (and Me); What If; Dad and Me and Silence; Sam; Part Two; Sometimes in the Night; Sam (and Her Mother); Sam. Promises.; Me. And Dad. Talking.; The Story of Mima and MeMy Uncles and Aunts (and Cigarettes)WFTD = Prayer; Me (and Prayer); My Dad; WFTD = Nurture? Nature?; Me (in the Dark); Me. And My Fists; Sam; Me and Dad; Between Storms; Me. Fito. Friends.; Me and Sam; Me and Dad; Sylvia; Sam and Me and Death; Part Three; WFTD = Comfort; Dad and Lina (and Secrets); Lipstick; Sam and Me and Something Called Home; Dad and Sylvia; Sam. Dad. Me. Home.; WFTD = Extinct; Me and Sam. And a Word Called Faith; Syliva. Goodbye; River; Cigarettes; Sam (Moving In); Behind; Other People's Tragedies; Mima; Me and Sam (and Pawnshops); Me and Sam and Maggie; Reading FacesOn the Road (to Mima's)WFTD = Tortillas; Sam. Me. The Future.; Lists = Future?; Marcos?; Part Four; (Dad) Things We Never Say (Me); Me. Secrets.; Marcos? Hmm.; Cake; Me. Saturday Night. Sam.; Dad. At the Breakfast Table. Me and Sam.; Hangover; Mima. Cake.; Poetry. Poetry?; Dad. Marcos.; Dad (Marcos) Me; Me. Me? Who?; WFTD = Fists. Again?; Sam. Grief. Sylvia. Mima.; Running. On Empty. Fito.; Sam. Awesome.; Dad; Me. Sam. Us Doing This.; A Father Thing; My Dad. the Cat; Hanging Out; Me. Fito. Sam.; Sam. Eddie. Me.; Part Five; Sam. Learning to Talk. Me.; ThanksgivingSam. Talk. Fito. Talk. Me. Talk.Church; Not Fair. Not Fair?; Mima. Tired.; Mima; Leftovers. Lectures.; By Me; Friday; Marcos; Me. Dreams.; Sam. Dad. Me. Dad!; Sister; Mothers; Fito. Eighteen. Marcos. Adult?; (More) Shit Happens; Friends; Faggot. That Word Again.; Aftermath; Me. Dad.; Fito. Sam. Me.; Fito + Words = ?; Homework. Mothers.; Snow. Cold. Fito. Mima.; Rat; Mima. Me.; Part Six; Sam. Fierce. Yup.; Fito. Sam. Me. Texting.; Ashes; O, Christmas Tree, O, Christmas Tree; Dirt. Paper Bags. Candles.; Midnight Mass; Christmas; Dream; Home; New Year's Eve; Happy New Year ?; NightThursday. Two O'clock in the Morning.Gone; Grief; Cemetery; Me. Alone. Not.; Dad. Grief. Marcos.; Dad. Me.; Going for Normal; Sam. Me. Fito.; Mom; Salvador; Back Matter; Epliogue; Acknowledgments; About the Author; Back Flap; Back Cover; Spine
Target audience
adolescent
Classification
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