Vomit, Blood and Folly
A novel conveys the grittier aspects of multicultural adolescence. April 2012
They say not to judge a book by its cover—Mongrel has two devil-headed youths seated together who appear to be writing something with a bowl of what looks like blood by their feet—but, in this case, I find the correlation between the stories and the cover to be spot on.
When a reader begins this…