Ellen Yeomans

Rubber Houses Ellen Yeomans

Kit is a typical teenage girl happily engaged in school and family life. She and her younger brother, Buddy, are deeply bonded, despite their age difference, connected by a love of baseball and math. Then Kit learns that Buddy, has been diagnosed with cancer. The poems that follow capture both devastating loss and the beginnings of recovery in spare, lyrical verse that throbs with raw emotional power.