"I want you to know that I think you're right. The world does seem like a terrible place right now. But I'm going to tell you something because I think you need to hear it: you've become a very negative person. And I don't know if it has to do with me and your father, or if it's the other kids in...
What an astonishingly beautiful, awful, brutal, stunning book. Who are the players? Well, there's eleven-year-old Dough and his thirteen-year-old pyro brother Pill-Bug. (Their dad, who's dead, was familiar with Johnny Cash's "Boy Named Sue" theory.) They live in a trailer park with their mom and ...