The Merit Birds
Kelley Powell
Fiction P8714m
Eighteen-year-old Cam Scott is angry. He’s angry about his absent dad,
he’s angry about being angry, and he’s angry that he has had to give up
his Ottawa basketball team to follow his mom to her new job in
Vientiane, Laos. However, Cam’s anger begins to melt under the Southeast
Asian sun as he finds friendship with his neighbour, Somchai, and
gradually falls in love with Nok, who teaches him about building merit,
or karma, by doing good deeds, such as purchasing caged “merit birds.”
Tragedy strikes and Cam finds himself falsely accused of a crime. His
freedom depends on a person he’s never met. A person who knows that the
only way to restore his merit is to confess. The Merit Birds blends action, suspense, and humour in a far-off land where things seem so different, yet deep down are so much the same.
(from publisher)
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