The Trees of Calan Gray, by Danial Neil

I bought it on the ferry, so its a BC, or at least CanCon book.  Its a boy who is viciously abused by his father somewhere on the Canadian prairies.  His mom and him run away to the west coast and he is raised by his grandpa, things get better but he is still troubled by a lot of things in life.  I liked it but it was hard because the same old story about men being horrible.