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    Munro vs. the Coyote

    By Darren Groth

    3.5/5

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    Since the sudden death of his younger sister, Evie, sixteen-year-old Munro Maddux has been having flashbacks and anger-management issues.

    He has a constant ache in his right hand. And there's a taunting, barking, biting voice he calls "the Coyote." Munro knows a six-month student exchange will not be the stuff of teenage dreams, but in Brisbane, he intends to move beyond his troubled past. It is there, at an assisted-living residence called Fair Go Community Village, that Munro discovers the Coyote can be silenced.

    Munro volunteers as a "Living Partner" and gets to know the team of residents he is assigned to. The burden Munro carries, however, is not so easily cast aside. When one of the team makes the decision to leave, the Coyote gets a new life. When a second resident is taken away, the specter of trauma and death looms larger than ever. Will Munro learn how to silence the voice? Or will the Coyote ultimately triumph?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOrca Book Publishers
    Release dateOct 17, 2017
    ISBN9781459814110
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    Munro vs. the Coyote
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    Darren Groth

    Darren Groth is the author of several novels, including the acclaimed YA works Are You Seeing Me? and Munro vs. the Coyote. He was the winner of the 2016 Adelaide Festival Award for Young Adult Fiction and has been a finalist in numerous other prestigious prizes, including the Governor General's Literary Award, the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize and the CBCA Book of the Year. Darren is a former special-education teacher and the proud father of a son with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). He lives in Delta, British Columbia.

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    • 4/5
      The main character in this story is a young boy grieving over the death of his sister. I felt a real connection to this character because of the way the story was written. The target audience was very clearly, shown in wording and character development.
    • 2/5
      A somewhat flat, mostly boring story about a teen who joins a student exchange program in Australia to escape the pain caused by the death of his sister. Clearly, this doesn't work, and Munro is as haunted by the voice he calls "Coyote" in Brisbane as he was back in Canada. Along the way he learns to forge connections to new friends, new family, and the young people he helps out with at an assisted living center. The only times I enjoyed reading this book was when Munro was volunteering at the living center, and interacting with the residents there. The rest of this book was a waste of time.
    • 4/5
      Three and a half stars rounded up to four.This is the second book in a month I've read about a Canadian teenager grieving the death of a younger sibling. It wasn't a conscious choice, but rather chance; I won both Munro vs. the Coyote and Optimists Die First from the LibraryThing Early Reviewer program. Munro Maddox has been struggling since the sudden death of his thirteen year old sister six months earlier. Munro hears a cruel, pessimistic voice in his head that he has named 'the Coyote' and, though it is never mentioned in the text, he also seems to suffer from post traumatic stress disorder. Munro's symptoms make it difficult for him to attend school, the place where his sister died, so he signs up for a school exchange program in Australia. In Australia he stays with a nice foster family that are more sympathetic to what he's going through than he expected and is assigned a volunteer position at a care community.The community is set up like a village, for adults who have developmental or physical disabilities. One girl in particular reminds Munro of his dead sister, who also had Down's Syndrome. At first this triggers Munro's issues, before eventually alleviating them. Munro's interactions with the residents are sweet and you can see how it helps him.The story is quick and readable, the language accessible and, in many ways, quite simple. Munro's a sympathetic character, his pain is palpable and relatable, his confusion understandable. However, the length of the book made the story feel very rushed, particularly towards the end. That was a big drawback for me as it made Munro's recovery feel far too fast. I would have liked the setback Munro has towards the end of the book to have been focused on more. It felt like it wrapped up too early.Other than that, I really liked it. There's minor romance that's sweet and doesn't overpower the story as well. The school exchange to Australia was a particularly nice conception; the location served as a reminder that you cannot run away from grief, while at the same time recognizing that sometimes the only way to come to terms with trauma is to remove yourself from the emotional triggers. Plus the culture clash was cute and fun.
    • 3/5
      I like the plot of this book- teen grieving over the recent death of his sister joins a student exchange program and travels to Australia in the hopes of leaving his guilt/grief behind. And there is a nice plot twist at the end. However- I had a problem keeping all the voices straight in the beginning when the MC was haunted by Coyote as well as speaking to his sister. I enjoyed the second half much better-when the Coyote's voice was silenced and Munro is working at Fair Go- the characters in this section were vibrant and the plot easier to follow.