@article{1488585,
      author = {Tison, Ari,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1488585},
      title = {Saints of the household /},
      abstract = {"Max and Jay have always depended on each other for their  survival. Growing up with an abusive father, the two  brothers have learned that the only way to protect  themselves and their mother is to keep their heads down.  And create art. But when they hear a girl in trouble in the  woods after school, instinct takes over and they intervene,  interrupting a fight and beating up their high school's  star soccer player. When the authorities arrive and  statements are taken, Max and Jay realize they may have  misread the situation. Did they? With their college dreams  in jeopardy, this one act of violence shakes their idea of  who they thought they were -- as brothers, as sons, as men.  Max and Jay will have to reach back to their Bribri  (Indigenous Costa Rican) roots to find their way forward --  and face the truth of what really happened in those woods.  Told in alternating points of view using vignettes and  poems, Ari Tison's debut novel draws on her Bribri American  identity to paint a slow-burning small-town drama about  brotherhood, abuse, recovery, and doing the right thing"--},
      recid = {1488585},
      pages = {312 pages ;},
}