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Thank you for visiting the home page for Snowflake International and Martin Bartloff.
Snowflake International is the press responsible for the publication of TORN FROM NORMAL, the debut young adult novel from Martin Bartloff.
Dear lovers of fiction, my dear fans of TORN FROM NORMAL. It is my pleasure to hereby inform you, that I will soon torture your heartstrings once more.
I’m plotting a story so powerful–so deep. You will completely neglect what’s around you and just give in, to let the story take you over.
Engulfed and captivated, the real world will seem surreal at times.
Torn from Normal (Debut Novel)
Andy Riley has lost both of his parents in a very short time. With no family worth speaking of, he heads off in search of freedom. What he finds is a vagrant life with a gang of kids who get their kicks trying to rob people. One night, things go too far and Andy finds himself being rescued by a man driving a blue Porsche. He never would have imagined.
Danny knows his dad would never leave a kid bleeding alone in an alley. He’s had quite a few foster brothers, and something in the way Andy looks tells Danny, the boy could use a friend.
Desperate to belong and to find the answers to questions that haunt him, Andy does everything he can to fit in with his new “family.” Not quite sure of his own feelings, he grabs hold, terrified of losing everything again. But even though they say they want him around, Andy isn’t sure they mean it. When Danny and his father make a trip abroad, the law won’t allow Andy to go, and all of his feelings of despair and abandonment overwhelm him.
Despite the kindness and love Andy has found, he can’t overcome the loss that drives him down a path with no way back.
