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  title info:
    title: Be ready for the lightning
  name:
    name part: O'Connell, Grace
    name part: 1984-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: novel
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: onc
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 286 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: From acclaimed New Face of Fiction alumna Grace O'Connell, a suspenseful, poignant and provocative tale about violence, sibling love, friendship, heroism, all told through the lens of a young woman trapped in a hijacked bus. On the surface, Veda's life in Vancouver seems to be going just fine, at nearly thirty, she has a good job, lifelong friends and a close bond with her brother, Conrad. But Conrad's violent behavior, a problem since he was a teen, is getting more and more serious, and Veda's ongoing commitment to watch out for him is pushing her to a breaking point. When Veda is injured as a bystander during one of Conrad's many fights, she knows it's time to leave Vancouver for a fresh start. She heads to New York, staying in the Manhattan apartment of old friends Al and Marie. Exploring the city, she swings between feeling hopeful and lost, until one day the bus she's on is hijacked by a sweet-faced gun-toting man named Peter. He instructs Veda and the other passengers to spray paint the bus windows black, and what ensues is a gripping and unpredictable hostage situation, the outcome of which will make Veda question everything she knows about herself and the nature of fear. Told with powerful immediacy and warmth, at once unsettling and engrossing, Be Ready for the Lightning is a story of violence, its attractions and repulsions, of love, loyalty and friendship and of a young woman finding an unexpected kind of bravery.
  note: Grace O'Connell.
  subject:
    topic: Brothers and sisters
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Hijacking of buses
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Hostages
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Violence
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Fear
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Heroes
    genre: Fiction
  classification: PR9199.4.O2655 B42 2017
  classification: C813/.6
  identifier: 9780345811776
  identifier: 0345811771
  record info:
    record content source: NLC
    record creation date: 161216
    record change date: 20171016140854.0
    record identifier: in00003888198
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng