Punching Bag

4.49 (735 ratings by Goodreads)
Regular price €18.99
A01=Rex Ogle
abuse
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
Author_Rex Ogle
automatic-update
Category1=Kids
Category=YXA
Category=YXC
Category=YXQ
Category=YXZ
COP=United States
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
domestic violence
eq_childrens
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_personal-social-topics
Language_English
memoir
PA=Available
poverty
Price_€10 to €20
PS=Active
softlaunch

Product details

  • ISBN 9781324016236
  • Weight: 384g
  • Dimensions: 147 x 218mm
  • Publication Date: 15 Oct 2021
  • Publisher: WW Norton & Co
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Hardback
  • Language: English
Delivery/Collection within 10-20 working days

Our Delivery Time Frames Explained
2-4 Working Days: Available in-stock

10-20 Working Days
: On Backorder

Will Deliver When Available
: On Pre-Order or Reprinting

We ship your order once all items have arrived at our warehouse and are processed. Need those 2-4 day shipping items sooner? Just place a separate order for them!

Punching Bag is the compelling true story of a high school career defined by poverty and punctuated by outbreaks of domestic abuse. Rex Ogle, who brilliantly mapped his experience of hunger in Free Lunch, here describes his struggle to survive; reflects on his complex, often paradoxical relationship with his passionate, fierce mother; and charts the trajectory of his stepdad’s anger. Hovering over Rex’s story is the talismanic presence of his unborn baby sister.

Through it all, Rex threads moments of grace and humour that act as beacons of light in the darkness. Compulsively readable, beautifully crafted and authentically told, Punching Bag is a remarkable memoir about one teenager’s cycle of violence, blame, and attempts to forgive his parents—and himself.

Rex Ogle is the author of Free Lunch, winner of the YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award; Punching Bag, a New York Public Library Best Book; Abuela Don’t Forget Me, finalist for the YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award; and Road Home, which received a Printz Honor and a Stonewall Book Award Honor. He lives in Los Angeles, California.