![post image](https://litsy-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/posts/post_images/2023/02/06/1675682031-63e0e0ef6b20e-user-submitted.jpg)
![Pick](https://image.librarything.com/pics/litsy_webpics/icon_pick.png)
This is a pretty bleak and brutal book featuring a father and his two sons who leave Kansas for New Mexico to start a new life. The narrator, the youngest son, has lied to authorities about his mother so that she‘ll lose custody, but it turns out his father is a much bigger threat. Is this YA? Despite its adolescent narrator, the book‘s content would definitely skew mature teen.