It s where Lucien is taught the importance of living in harmony with nature and building a peaceful and sustainable future. In this coming-of-age thriller, a twelve-year-old boy s spark of courage to question the harmonious wooded commune he calls home may burn down more than just his own illusions.Lucien has everything he needs: a loving mama, a library full of books, and House of Earth, a private school nestled safely in the woods of upstate New York. (Feb.We're sorry this specific copy is no longer available. Readers interested in a similar plot will be better served by Rio Youers’s Halcyon. Barkan, however, fails to make the characters multidimensional or emotionally plausible. Eventually, Leroux’s real, and unsurprisingly sinister, master plan for limiting human damage to Earth is revealed, placing Lucien in peril.
When a student at another school checks the book out for him, they become friends, and Lucien gets even more exposure to forbidden material. Inevitably, Lucien is tempted by the world beyond his restrictive school, and at the public library he becomes engrossed in Bernard Malamud’s The Natural. That mission comes with restrictions on reading material, technology, and even the colors that can be used, as Lucien learns when he paints a birdhouse black. Leroux to foster living lives “free of negativity,” in harmony with nature.
When Lucien, the protagonist of this unconvincing, slow-moving thriller from Barkan ( Demolition Night), is six, his mother enrolls him in an eco-friendly upstate New York private school, House of Earth, where she works in recordkeeping.
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