She’s carefree and open, whereas he carries the weight of his mother’s thwarted ambition and tries hard not to let anyone get too close. He’s never had a friend until the day he gets paired with August, a girl in his class at school and told they must produce an essay together. After growing up a witness to her mother’s rages, it’s hardly surprising that Joey has problems controlling her own temper, and Beck lives in fear of his mother directing her violence at the little sister he loves and has always done his best to protect. Instead, she's foisted the dream of the life she lost to onto her son.īeck and his five-year-old sister Joey live in poverty, eating cornflake sandwiches and wearing clothes to school that don’t fit. Beck’s mother, known throughout the book as the Maestro, was a celebrated concert pianist until a stroke robbed her of her career, her ambition and her passion for music. But then most 15-year-olds aren’t forced to play the piano for hours every day, attempting to perfect music they’ve come to hate. Most 15-year-olds don’t fantasise about cutting their own hands off. Beck Keverich isn’t like most 15-year-olds.
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