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Of Foster Homes and Flies

By: Chad Lutzke
Narrated by: Michael C. Gwynne
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Summary

A neglected 12-year-old boy does nothing to report the death of his mother in order to compete in a spelling bee. A tragic coming-of-age tale of horror and drama in the setting of a hot New Orleans summer.

©2016 Chad Lutzke (P)2016 Chad Lutzke
Coming of Age Fiction
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"Lutzke is firing on all cylinders. It's a lean, mean, emotional machine. Coming-of-age presented in a fresh direction. Bearing tremendous emotional weight and heart. It made me cry." (John Boden, author of Jedi Summer and Dominoes)
"Disturbing, often gruesome, yet poignant at the same time, Chad Lutzke's Of Foster Homes and Flies is one of the best dark coming-of-age tales I've read in years. You'll laugh (sometimes when you know you shouldn't), you'll cry, you'll find yourself wondering how soon you can read more of this guy's work. Highly recommended!" (James Newman, author of Midnight Rain, Ugly as Sin, and Odd Man Out)
" Of Foster Homes and Flies by Chad Lutzke is a lovely addition to the coming-of-age subgenre. He creates in the character of Denny an authentic young man with passions and foibles, someone easy to relate to and root for. The novella hits all the right notes you expect out of a coming of age tale, while also providing a plot that has originality and surprises." (Mark Allan Gunnells, author of Flowers in a Dumpster and The Summer of Winters)

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Of Foster Homes and Flies

This is a brilliant short novella. It's well written and I was pulled in to the young boys world within the first couple of minutes and there I stayed until the very end. Dark and foreboding, it's not a horror story to try and shock the reader but to make the reader think about the torments that can go on in a young boys mind when he is thrown in to certain very unusual situations. Highly recommended listen, the narration was spot on and really breathed life in to the book.
I was kindly given a copy of the book and leave this honest review.

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