2020/108: Burn -- Patrick Ness

2020/108: Burn -- Patrick Ness

“Sometimes you just have to feel bad about a thing. Sometimes that’s the only thing that makes you human.” [loc. 1197]

Washington state, 1957: Sarah Dewhurst is fifteen years old, already accustomed to racism (her mother, now dead, was Black), and working hard on her father's farm in the hope that they can make it through another year. Her father, Gareth, has hired a dragon to clear a couple of fields, but warns Sarah not to think of the dragon as 'he', not to think of it as anything but an animal without a soul.

( minor spoilers for setup )