Conviction, by Kelly Loy Gilbert
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Winner of the Children's Choice Book Awards' Teen Choice Debut Author AwardTen years ago, Braden was given a sign, a promise that his family wouldn't fall apart the way he feared.But Braden got it wrong: his older brother, Trey, has been estranged from the family for almost as long, and his father, the only parent Braden has ever known, has been accused of murder. The arrest of Braden's father, a well-known Christian radio host has sparked national media attention. His fate lies in his son's hands; Braden is the key witness in his father's upcoming trial. Braden has always measured himself through baseball. He is the star pitcher in his small town of Ornette, and his ninety-four mile per hour pitch already has minor league scouts buzzing in his junior year. Now the rules of the sport that has always been Braden's saving grace are blurred in ways he never realized, and the prospect of playing against Alex Reyes, the nephew of the police officer his father is accused of killing, is haunting his every pitch. Braden faces an impossible choice, one that will define him for the rest of his life, in this brutally honest debut novel about family, faith, and the ultimate test of conviction.
Conviction, by Kelly Loy Gilbert- Amazon Sales Rank: #120632 in Books
- Brand: Gilbert, Kelly Loy
- Published on: 2015-05-19
- Released on: 2015-05-19
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.63" h x 1.13" w x 5.88" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 352 pages
From School Library Journal Gr 8 Up—Braden's dad is in jail, awaiting trial for allegedly killing a police officer, supposedly backing up, swerving, and running the officer down during a routine traffic stop. Braden dreads having to testify. His father is a well-known religious radio host, and Braden's own faith is wavering as he wrestles with the realities of the relationship he has with his father. He wants to believe that his father is a good man, but the facts in the case seem to point in another direction. Flickers of his dad's drinking, violence, and judgmental tendencies make Braden increasingly apprehensive about providing his version of the events of the night the officer was killed. He also has lingering doubts about why his older brother would leave home, not returning for more than a decade. When he arrives back to care for Braden during their dad's incarceration, Braden eventually learns the truth: his dad disapproved of the brother's secrets and beat him mercilessly. The story flashes forward and back in time, interweaving baseball vignettes as metaphors for strained relationships. The sophisticated pacing requires effort to push through; this is a multilayered story that provides meaty sustenance for those seeking insights into rifts between fathers and sons. Readers who do push through will find a poignant look at the messiness of love, faith, and humanity. VERDICT A strong debut for readers who enjoyed E.M. Kokie's Personal Effects (Candlewick, 2012).—Leah Krippner, Harlem High School, Machesney Park, IL
Review *"There are no easy answers. Love is both beautiful and cruel. God is both loving and mysterious. And family is both comforting and suffocating. Both hopeful and devastatingly real."―--Kirkus, starred review*"Gilbert respectfully and sensitively handles themes of faith,religion, and family [a] moving debut."―--Booklist, starred review*"A poignant look at the messiness of love, faith, and humanity."―--School Library Journal, starred review
About the Author Kelly Loy Gilbert believes deeply in the power of stories to illuminate a shared humanity and give voice to complex, broken people. She is passionate about social justice, the San Francisco Giants, and organizing things by color. She studied writing at UC San Diego and San Francisco State, and enjoys serving on the NaNoWriMo Associate Board and leading creative writing workshops for teens. She lives in the SF Bay Area with her family in an apartment teeming with books. She would be thrilled to hear from you on Twitter @KellyLoyGilbert or at KellyLoyGilbert.com.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Just... WOW By Lee Kelly Kelly Loy Gilbert's CONVICTION absolutely wowed me. Compulsively page-turning, the novel is the examination of one family's dynamics in the wake of a crisis that has rocked their faith (in every sense of the word).Gilbert's characters jump off the page -- her main character Braden has a voice that is both accessible and startlingly poignant -- and her supporting characters (particularly brother Trey and Braden's father, one of the most complicated characters I've read in a long time) are fully realized and will haunt you with their choices and their motivations long after you turn the last page.CONVICTION is one of those rare finds: A novel that gives you a fresh fast-paced plot on the surface -- an unraveling trial, a baseball season where more is on the line than winning on the field -- while still presenting a unflinchingly honest and raw study of what it means to be human and what it means to have faith. This one is not to be missed!!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. No easy answers. By R Kanakia This is a really marvelous, subtle book. Ostensibly the book is powered by a murder mystery suspense plot: did the father do it? Will he get off?But that's not the heart of the book at all. Really, the core of the book is the question: Is the father a good man?He's not a perfect man. You know that from the beginning. But he contains many aspects of a good father. He's raised a good kid: nice, respectful, reasonably happy, and a star pitcher with serious pro ball prospects. And he's oftentimes loving and encouraging. But he's also a haunted man. There's a streak of violence and nastiness inside him, and throughout the book you're left wondering how deep that streak goes and whether his nastiness wipes out all the good things you've seen.The moral questions in a lot of books tend to be pretty simple. They contain great humanitarians who turn out to be pedophiles. Or effective leaders who are forced to sacrifice innocent people in order to save the nation as a whole.Here, nothing is simple. At every moment, you're never really sure what lies underneath the father's words. Is it all ego and cruelty? Or is he just doing the best that he knows how?And watching the son try to come to terms with the way he's been raised is just heartbreaking. Because it makes you realize how alone kids are. If your parent is unambiguously awful, then maybe you can someday sever yourself from them and escape. But if your parent gives you both love and trauma, then how do you escape? How do you draw the line? How can you deal with the fact that someone who's given you so much and done so much for you is also able to do things that seem so selfish?The book does an amazing job of walking that fine line where you always THINK that some sort of closure is coming. You always feel like maybe you're going to get a final read on these characters and that it's going to come out and say something definitive. Because this is not a world where everything is shades of grey. This is not a world that's accepted the idea that all men are flawed and that you can't do anything about it. This is a world where people still struggle to be good, and one where they believe in the possibility of goodness. And it's really gripping to see people writhe and struggle within that world and try to figure out what the hell is going on.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. An uncompromising journey through the pains of change By Verena L. I don't know much about baseball, and I'm not a person of any traditional faith. Yet this book blew me away. I'm still processing it, and I'll be thinking about it for a long, long time.We talk so often about "toxic relationships" and how people just need to grow a backbone and leave them. And maybe that's true, but it doesn't reflect the devilish complexities of the problem. When a parent has raised you in a state of emotional dependence, using both love and anger to shape your entire world-view and your sense of your own strengths and weaknesses, that's not an easy relationship to turn your back on.Braden starts the story identifying God with his father and vice versa. To be rejected by his father is to be cast out of Paradise. He sneers at people who don't fear such rejection as a living death, who believe that God might show mercy to their weaknesses. Yet separating God from his father and developing a more generous, less punitive notion of God is the hardest thing he will ever do, the real test of his courage.I think what I loved most about the book was how uncompromising and real it was in its portrayal of Braden's double-bind, even when his loyalty to his father made him less than sympathetic. The story had a lot of opportunities for cheap "growth" and affirmation, and Gilbert did not take any of them. When Braden actually does grow, it's an agonizing process, and there's a recognition that some things about him will probably never change. Same with his brother Trey. I often wanted to yell at these characters to do things differently, but I always believed in them.The prose is intense and tight-knit and powerful and kept me focused even in the baseball scenes. Sometimes especially then—I learned a LOT about baseball from this book. I love characters who have a skill or craft they're so committed to that they can make it interesting to any reader, and that's how Braden is about pitching.This book says so much about why we hurt others, and why we hurt ourselves, and how the very convictions that give our lives meaning can also make our lives hell when they collide with immovable realities. But it also offers hope that, after enough denying and flailing and struggling to hold on to our old ways, we may finally encounter something like grace.
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