Let it go

Marilyn Halvorson

Red Cantrel and Lance Durcharme are fifteen-year-old, wise-cracking best friends, and each has a secret that affects his life profoundly. Red's brother lies in a Calgary hospital a vegetable, as the result of a drug overdose. This tragedy has strained family relationships close to the breaking point; Red and his father are almost completely estranged. Lance's mother is now a country singing star, but Lance feels her fame is at his expense; she left him and his father ten years ago, driven by ambition that negated mother-love, or so he feels. As these secrets inevitably surface and affect day-to-day life, both boys, but Lance in particular, are pushed beyond endurance to uncharacteristic actions. Exhibiting true friendship and unusual maturity for a fifteen-year-old, Red is able to overcome Lance's anger and confusion and avert what could have been a catastrophic end to their...

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