![]() Like love, and like sorrow, the blue summer sky is infinite in this coming-of-age story that is both breathtaking and heartbreaking. But Trick might not be everything he seems, and as Iris struggles to find where her loyalties lie, all of the prejudice, vulnerability, and anger that surrounds her collides in an unspeakable tragedy. Iris's father is bent on evicting the travelers, and her beloved brother Sam is impulsive, lost, and headed for trouble. ![]() Yet even as Iris's secret friendship with Trick blooms into something more, tensions run high between their families. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Infinite Sky by C. Tragedy emerges from the commonplace miseries of everyday life in this evocative mood piece. The gypsy boy, Trick, is restless and warm and full of life-he'll settle when he's in his grave, he tells Iris-and she feels as though she understands him completely. Just two months after her mother abandons her family, leaving her gruff, introverted father to raise two children alone, Iris watches a family of gypsies set up an illegal camp in the paddock by her house. True love is never lost-but how much loss can it endure? Iris confronts the complexities of family and prejudice in this exquisite and searing debut novel whose "understated, gently embellished prose cuts to the bone" ( Booklist, starred review). ![]()
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