The news is broken to 13 year old Liam that his father is dying of AIDS.His mother wants him to believe that it is due to a blood transfusion that went wrong: Liam's long buried memory of seeing his father embrace another man tells him this is not true.His anger with his father,their awkward attempts to talk to each other,and Liam's relationship with his mother and his father's hostile sister maka deeply moving story.It is painful reading not least in the account of Liam's father's death,but its truthfulness,and the warmth and understanding with which Paula Fox writes about her characters,will ensure that this book will help any child whose life is touched by death.

 

There are 128 pages in this book. This book was published 1996 by Hachette Children's Group .

Paula Fox was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Medal for her body of work. Two of her best-known books are "The Slave Dancer" (a Newbery Medal winner) and "One-Eyed Cat" (a Newbery Honor Book). She lives in Brooklyn, New York.