Monday, February 01, 2016

The Things a Brother Knows

The story is narrated by the younger of two sons of an immigrant Jewish family who live in Boston. Levi and Boaz share a bathroom but when his brother returns from a stint in Marine Service a relationship that was distant when his brother, older by three years, hit high school has now become completely withdrawn. The man who returned from war is not the boy who enlisted.

Levi has two best friends, Zim, the boy across the street and Pearl, a Jewish Chinese girl adopted by a single mother—a friend, not his girlfriend.

Essentially this is a story about PTSD and a loving family's attempt to understand and support a troubled young man.

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