Written in English
Miles Franklin 2010 · Shortlist
Jasper Jones
Jasper Jones
Craig Silvey · 27 when first published
Novel · 299 pages · Coming of age, Crime
AI-generated summary:On a hot night in 1965 a bookish thirteen-year-old in a Western Australian mining town is woken by the town's mixed-race outcast, who begs for help and leads him into the bush to a terrible discovery.