![]() Rather than risk incurring the wrath of that. Sometimes he and Mom would huddle in the kitchen. And no one was going to fault anybody for avoiding that. ![]() Towards the end, Allen who was the kindest man ever became ‘that’ person who would yell ‘kants’ in a weird New England accent at people who tried to help him. He remembers the time when his stepdad Allen became sick. ![]() Eber is at a stage where the tumor is affecting his word choices, so he is considering killing himself before his faculties fail him and he becomes a burden to his family. But then the story moved to Don Eber, a man in his fifties who is suffering from a brain tumor, and all of a sudden the story turned into terrific read! George Saunders’ portrayal of Eber is brilliant. This first bit was very slow moving for me, perhaps because fantasy isn’t a genre I like. On the day the story takes place, Robin is on a mission to save Suzanne from homeroom who has been kidnapped by “Netherlanders.” So his fantasies, in which he is a hero, has become key to his survival. It starts with Robin, a little boy who is constantly bullied at school. I struggled a lot with this story at first. ![]()
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