33 snowfish

This is a story of 3 teenagers running away because the eldest, Boobie, killed his parents and kidnapped his baby brother. The story is told by Curtis, a very hateful young boy who escaped from his owner called Bob Martley who has sexually abused him. After overhead that his master was going to sell him, he stole a pistol and ran away.
After he ran away, he meet Boobie and Curl, Boobie's girlfriend, a 14 years old girl who got addicted to drugs. Boobie stole his baby brother in order to sell him for some money. The three of them ran away from the police in a stolen Skylark and eventually Curl died. Custis was saved from a black old man after being abandoned by Boobie. Custis decided to stay and built up a new life.

This story is extremely disturbing because Custis swears on almost every page. However, it is very real and down to earth. Among all the cruelty suddenly there is kindness at the end when the black man took care of Custis like his own child. I still could not believe that the book is for young adults and the cover looks so innocent while the content is so explicit!!! ( Well I would recommend it if you can bear all the rude comments, swearing and racism-Custis is a racist !!!)