Download the entire issue for the Kindle or Nook. This article was originally published in the October 2018 issue of BookPage. These five Dunbar brothers and their story is one that will stay with me. While reading Bridge, I appreciated each detail of his writing because I knew how intentional it was for him. In this tale, Zusak explores how the intricate tapestries of our lives are woven not just by the decisions we make but also by those of the people closest to us, creating an interconnectedness from which no one, for better or worse, can ever completely extract themselves. Born in Sydney Australia, author Markus Zusak's 2005 young-adult World War II novel 'The Book Thief' won Publishers Weekly's Best Children's. Bridge of Clay took years and years for Markus to write, which is quite an inspirational story in and of itself. To read a novel by this masterful author is to embark on an immersive journey that challenges readers to expand their understanding of what it is to be human.

Either way, Bridge of Clay is Zusak at his best. With fully developed characters and intricate depictions of both adolescence and adulthood, this book straddles the line between young adult and adult fiction. But in doing so, he must face the wrath and confusion of his brothers and ultimately help them piece together the full truth of their family legacy. And when their father suddenly reappears with a strange request, it is Clay who answers his plea. The unforgettable, New York Times bestselling family saga from Markus Zusak, the storyteller who gave us the extraordinary bestseller THE BOOK THIEF, lauded by. Each of the boys deals with grief in their own way, but Clay, the fourth boy, holds a secret. It is a world marked by tragedy-first by the untimely death of their mother and then by their father’s abrupt abandonment. The world of the five Dunbar boys is one of love and blasphemy, fists and forgiveness. In Markus Zusak’s first release since the publication of his number one New York Times bestseller The Book Thief, he weaves a modern epic of great love, wrenching loss and the sustaining power of familial bonds.

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