Kin

by Christi Stewart-Brown

Overview

When 13-year-old Jude "accidentally" finds his birth certificate in his mother's underwear drawer, his world is turned upside down. He knew he was adopted, but the birth certificate reveals something he could never have imagined in his wildest dreams. Jude has a blood family nearby-and not just a blood family, a blood relative who is as close as close can get. The document leads to a journey back in time, or so it seems to Jude. The kin he has never met reside in the wilds of Appalachia, living off the land, barely subsisting. Kin is a humorous adventure story of a spoiled American teen with a fondness for explosives and electronics who is thrust into a community that is virtually 100 years behind the times.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940011312007
Publisher:	Christi Stewart-Brown
Publication date:	05/09/2011
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	205 KB
Age Range:	12 Years

About the Author

Christi Stewart-Brown is a playwright who has had over 45 productions of her plays across the U.S., in Canada, and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland.

Stewart-Brown is a four-time Helen Hayes Award nominee and her plays include: Morticians in Love, which ran Off-Broadway in 1995 at the Perry Street Theatre, The Gene Pool, Three More Sisters, Sweet Land of Liberty, Full of Grace, Steak! (co-author), a country-western musical about cattle-rustling vegetarians, and Do Not Use if Seal is Broken, which was made into a film entitled Loungers.

Loungers, directed by Marc Forster (Finding Neverland, Monster's Ball, The Kite Runner), was featured at the 1996 Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, where it won the Audience Award and placed second for the Jury Award.

Kin is her first novel.