Flowers for Papa
By Margaret Beaver
Publisher: Vanguard Press
Pegasus Elliot MacKenzie Publishers
November 28, 2024
9781800167155
Genre(s): YA, general, romance, contemporary, coming-of-age
August Johnson had a quiet, penguin-pajama childhood until one of his fathers dies suddenly, following August’s sixth birthday. At the age of twelve, he’s sent away from home to live with his Great Aunt Myrtle, embarking on a six-year estrangement. August doesn’t talk about his childhood, until, aged eighteen, an unmarked letter in the mail arrives, telling of his surviving father’s sudden sickness and his seeking of his son. Finally, the parting of father and son begins to wane as the road unfolds before August and his spirited passenger—when the estranged will be reunited at last, and the truth of his father’s death unearthed.
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About the Author
Margaret Beaver is a young design student, mental health and LGBTQIA+ equality activist, and award-winning poet and novelist. She has been honored as a two-time consecutive Topical Winner of Live Poets Society of New Jersey publications, a recipient of the Readers’ Favorite five-star cover seal, and decorated with the 2023 Donna Lynn Quille Award for Best Advocacy Prose. She writes nonfiction poetry collections and novels spanning all subgenres of fiction detailing the integral topics of inclusivity and prejudice, abusive authority, estranged parents and children, the detriments of mental illness, and the triumph of family. She is the author of INKWELLS. (Vanguard Press/Pegasus Publishers, 2022); FLOWERS FOR PAPA (Vanguard Press/Pegasus Publishers, 2024); and SEASONS: AUGUST’S COLLECTION (Vanguard Press/Pegasus Publishers, 2024).
