Whiteley Earl Darby is the untouchable. To say he is bullied is to horribly minimize his treatment at the hands and his fellow 6th graders. He is not even called by his name. He is called The Kid - even by his father. The Kid has made a covenant with God at his friend Matthew's urging. He has decided not to talk until his mother returns. (He refuses to accept that she is dead.) He communicates with his notebook and through his artwork and comic books. His father, also suffering from his wife's death, sleeps in his truck and is called at odd hours to his unusual job. He works for Everclean, a company which reports to the scenes of great violence to cleanse the area of fluids, bio hazards, and carpets & furnishing, returning the scenes to their pre-violence sterility. This is an engaging novel graphically depicting the awesome repercussions of intense grief.
Horror
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