The Violence Almanac Theater a claim that no one

a claim that no one in her life will accept--except for her single mother

"--Mackenzi Lee

Or will she be too late

One of Bank Street's 2021 Best Children's Books of the Year

Ira is up to his neck in train robbers

The Violence Almanac Theater a claim that no oneIn THE VIOLENCE ALMANAC, Miah Jeffra complicates the boundaries between culture and nature, fiction and true crime, desire and pain. In this powerful fiction debut, Jeffra takes us through the California landscape to map the various ways that violence emerges, terrorizes and shapes our most familiar social structures. An ostracized child yearns to be the hero for a rural community threatened by an escaped penitentiary inmate. An ambitious young writer