Copy Boy: A Jane Benjamin Novel

By: Shelley Blanton-Stroud

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Synopsis: &“This is Raymond Chandler for feminists.&” ―Sharma Shields, author of The Cassandra&“An expressive and striking story that examines what one does for family and for oneself.&” ―Kirkus ReviewsJane&’s a very brave boy. And a very difficult girl. She&’ll become a remarkable woman, an icon of her century, but that&’s a long way off. Not my fault, she thinks, dropping a bloody crowbar in the irrigation ditch after Daddy. She steals Momma&’s Ford and escapes to Depression-era San Francisco, where she fakes her way into work as a newspaper copy boy. Everything&’s looking up. She&’s climbing the ladder at the paper, winning validation, skill, and connections with the artists and thinkers of her day. But then Daddy reappears on the paper&’s front page, his arm around a girl who&’s just been beaten into a coma one block from Jane&’s newspaper―hit in the head with a crowbar. Jane&’s got to find Daddy before he finds her, and before everyone else finds her out. She&’s got to protect her invented identity. This is what she thinks she wants. It&’s definitely what her dead brother wants.