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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