BookBrowse Reviews Saints of the Household by Ari Tison

In Ari Tison's young adult novel Saints of the Household, brothers Max and Jay have always been close, largely due to their shared determination to protect their mother from their physically abusive father. Born less than a year apart, both are preparing to finish their senior year of high school in Minnesota when they stumble upon an altercation between their classmate Nicole and her boyfriend Luca, the school's widely adored star soccer player. Recognizing a little too much of their father's abusive ways in Luca's tone towards Nicole, the brothers intervene and soon beat him to a pulp. From here, they must navigate the resulting fallout, the impact their actions could have on their futures, and the painful realization that they may not be so different from their father after all.

The narrative is told from the perspectives of both brothers. Jay's sections are presented as brief ...