{"product_id":"come-up-screaming-steffan-piper-9798187808472","title":"Come Up Screaming","description":"\u003cp\u003eEngland, 1981. Twelve-year-old Sebastian Ranes has been uprooted from his grandmother's house in Altoona, Pennsylvania, and transplanted to a grey coastal town called Felixstowe, where his American stepfather is stationed with the Air Force and the rain comes sideways off the North Sea.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe doesn't know anyone. He doesn't speak the language, not really. And the custody papers he finds in his stepfather's drawer make it clear that his little sister Beanie, still in Altoona, still sleeping with the light on, may not be there much longer either.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat follows is not a story about a boy who learns to fit in. It's a story about a boy who learns to pay attention.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver three years, Sebby finds his footing in a world that doesn't explain itself. Through the cramped warmth of a flower depot at five in the morning. Through the pages of a love poem collection pressed into his hands by a theatrical French teacher. Through a friendship with a half-Irish Suffolk boy named Taylor who frames everything as film and has opinions about Sting that cannot be argued with.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe finds Mandy, who is from Lanarkshire and has no patience for anything that isn't true. He finds Les, who speaks in the language of work and never explains himself. He finds the florist's where nobody stares at him, and the sea wall where the wind is too loud for awkward silence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe also finds Brighton, on a night in October 1984, when the ground does something it shouldn't.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCome Up Screaming\u003c\/i\u003e moves between Altoona summers and English winters, between Radio Caroline crackling through the dark and a cassette of U2 playing at Stonehenge, between a grandmother who sent her best stationery to a man who read her letter and put it in a drawer, and a boy learning slowly, imperfectly, in pencil in the margins, what it costs to belong somewhere and what it means when you do.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not the kind of book that explains what it's about. It trusts you to feel it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Steffan Piper\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798187808472\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/27\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 398\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.17lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.89d","brand":"Steffan Piper","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49002320691455,"sku":"9798187808472","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/come-up-screaming-steffan-piper-9798187808472","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}