Chiaroscuro - A High School Story of Art, Awkwardness, and Anxiety (Casting Stones, Book Two. Christian YA Fiction)

By: Tarl Telford

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Length: 3 hrs and 37 mins

Publisher's summary

Chiaroscuro (kyar-uh-scoor-oh): The treatment of light and shade in drawing and painting

DEVOTION - DEPRESSION - DETERMINATION

Stom Carpenter is a nobody that everybody sort of sees. A silent giant in the high school hallways. Uncomfortable in his own soul, he yearns for the freedom of adulthood, never realizing that growing up comes with its own share of impossible problems.

THE BLENDING OF LIGHT AND SHADOW WAS FAR EASIER ON PAPER THAN IT WAS IN REAL LIFE

He traded in his football helmet for a sketchbook, turning his world upside down. His creative path and his religious path have always run together, but not anymore. The ghosts of the past haunt him like tattered ropes hanging from old branches.

The opponents on the football field were easy to see -- they wore uniforms. Now his opponents come in every shape and size -- from close loved ones, to local religious leaders, to shadows of memory barking up forgotten trees. Stom’s dark night of the soul is on full display as he struggles to keep his light alive.

Chiaroscuro dives into the internal and external pressures in the secret life of a teenage boy who wants the impossible -- for life to make sense. With only gray morality to guide him, even as truth falls away, what other options are there but chaos and inevitable self-destruction?

Casting Stones is a Christian-based YA series that explores the challenges faced by adolescents on the cusp of adulthood. Responsibility, accountability, and desirability. When the world turns its back on the fallen, just remember: Let he who is without sin begin casting stones.

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37,900 words

Also includes a Guide for Parents and Readers

Recommended for readers ages 12 and up