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What happens when an angry young man–who comes from nothing and is headed nowhere–is misunderstood, bullied and abused?
What happens if he finds a gun and takes it to school?
This is the gritty story of the young misfit, Jamie Kidding. Told in journal form, partly through the protagonist’s voice, partly through his graphic images (created by celebrated Alberta artist, Spyder Yardley-Jones), Jamie’s Got a Gun is a gripping and realistic narrative for teens.
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An aspiring artist and cartoonist, Jamie initially resorts to his notebook to record, in images and words, the reality of his complicated life with his working class mother, his deadbeat stepfather and the bullies he faces daily at his high school in a tough neighbourhood. Gradually, the weapon takes over Jamie’s life and his imagination, tantalizing him with deadly solutions to his personal and social troubles.
Seduced by a sense of power, one fateful day he takes the gun to his high school. Jamie Kidding careens down a self-destructive path until the final climactic moments of the novel–depicted graphically–when he must make a choice between life and death.
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