He’s been raising Sammy practically on his own ever since their mom disappeared again on one of her binges. Or you.There’s not much keeping Ian McDermott in Spokane, but at least it’s home. "Because something terribly wrong happened here, and it's not all your fault. It's a good read and one that will get you thinking. Harmon's poignant writing about the woes of a broken and damaged society hits right where it ought. This could easily be you or someone you know. Everything about it makes you feel like this could easily happen. Skate is one of those books where the characters are real. The only option he feels he has is to run away with his younger brother in an effort to find their father, hoping he might have a way to right the wrongs that have been committed by and against them.
He's no stranger to conflict because he has earned tough skin in his short, yet challenging, life.īut one day, he takes it too far and his entire world seems to come crashing down around him. Ian is known for having a propensity to talk back and speak his mind. Skate chronicles the story of Ian McDermott, a teenager whose home life is already hard enough when the certain members of the school faculty decide to turn against him. Each of his heroes (or - in the case of his third novel, Brutal - heroine) gives the reader a clear view of what it's like to be ostracized for being different and how there is always a way for that very person to rise above it all and be the hero of their own story. Harmon knows how to speak from the perspective of a teenager who feels different from the world around him and like everyone has turned against him. In having said that, I have enjoyed each of his novels equally. That was entirely unintentional, but that was they way it worked out. I have read each of these novels precisely in the opposite order in which he wrote them. Michael Harmon has, to date, written three novels. Fighting the system was fine, he said, but fighting it the right way was key.
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