02005cam a2200325 4500 409819459 TxAuBib 20200117120000.0 190208s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019004391 9781641290784 PAP 16.00 1641290781 PAP 16.00 TxAuBib Carr, Brian Allen, 1979- Opioid, Indiana [BOOK] / Brian Allen Carr ; illustrations by Jim Agpalza. New York, NY : Soho, [2019] 213 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. "Seventeen-year-old Riggle is living in rural Indiana with his uncle and uncle's girlfriend after the death of both of his parents. Now his uncle has gone missing, probably on a drug binge. It's Monday, and $800 in rent is due Friday. Riggle, who's been suspended from school, has to either find his uncle or get the money together himself. His mission exposes him to a motley group of Opioid locals--encounters by turns perplexing, harrowing, and heartening. Meanwhile, Riggle marks each day by remembering the mythology his late mother invented for him about how the days got their names. With amazing directness and insight, Carr explores what it's like to be a high school kid in in the age of Trump, a time of economic inequality, addiction, confederate flags,and mass shootings. A work of empathy and insight that pierces to the heart of our moment through an unforgettable protagonist"-- Provided by publisher. 20200117. Orphans Fiction. Families Fiction. Missing persons Fiction. Drug addicts Fiction. Small cities Indiana Fiction. Opioid abuse Fiction. Indiana Fiction. Indiana Social conditions 21st century Fiction. Domestic fiction. Agpalza, Jim, illustrator.