Ryan Christiansen's tale of a twelve-year-old who answers an ad saying, 'Boy Wanted,' takes the reader to the disturbed depths of the abandoned and vulnerable, those immobilized by the fear that their own behavior is what made a predator behave badly.  When Alvi's father, a failed auctioneer in Red River, North Dakota, becomes tangled up in bootlegging and leaves town during the Great Depression, Alvi and his mother find themselves in dire straits. Hiring himself out for work, Alvi helps an old man build a ski jump along the river. Alvi learns about his Norwegian antecedents and ski jumps and the young girl, Rose, and other things less welcomed.

Boy Wanted

Literature & Fiction

Ryan Christiansen

Literary

North Dakota State University Press

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Boy Wanted