Black Swan Green

It is 1982 in the Worcestershire village of Black Swan Green, and thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor is doing his best to stay invisible. He hides a stammer that he treats as a separate creature living in his throat, writes poetry in secret under a pen name, and navigates the shifting cruelties of village boys while his parents' marriage quietly comes apart at home. Told across thirteen month-by-month chapters, the novel follows a single year as Jason inches toward a fuller sense of who he is.