Mick Cochrane

Mick Cochrane is a writer who lives in Buffalo, New York. He is the author of four novels, most recently, Fitz. He is professor of English and Lowery Writer-in-Residence at Canisius College, where he teaches writing and literature.

Fitz

Junior Library Guild Selection

Fifteen-year-old Fitzgerald—Fitz, to his friends—has just learned that his father, whom he's never met, who supports him but is not a part of his life, is living nearby. Fitz begins to follow him, watch him, study him, and on an otherwise ordinary May morning, he executes a plan to force his father, at gunpoint, to be with him.

Over the course of one spring day, Fitz and his father become real to one another. Fitz learns about his father, why he's chosen to remain distant and what really happened between him and Fitz's mother. And his father learns what sort of boy his son has grown up to become.

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“A touching story of a teen trying to understand the father he never knew. Quiet scenes between Fitz and Curtis are written with an understated poignant emotionality that allows readers to understand Fitz. This is a hard book to put to down, and a great one to give to teens.”

—School Library Journal

“A moving, character-driven story that explores, with subtlety and quiet compassion, the struggle of a boy to fill a void in his life and find the love of a father.”

—Booklist

“Mick Cochrane has created a deeply relatable protagonist that allows readers to examine themselves through the character: when Fitz struggles internally over a question, you can’t help but ask the same question as well…The novel is engaging and worthy of a read by any teenager with questions about themselves.”

—TeenReads.com