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...poor," he says, recalling his childhood in Port-au-Prince. "I had two pairs of pants for the whole year, one pair of shoes. Sometimes I'd go to school barefooted." When he was nine, the woman he thought was his mother told him she was actually his aunt and that his real parents, who had left the country when he was four, were ready to take him to the U.S. Instead of feeling betrayed, he was overjoyed. "I always felt I would be in the ghetto forever," he says. "Then they said, Someone else is your parents and they...
...farm. But Amanda will answer only with generalities about some sort of skating accident: "Mattie was always taking chances, always doing things she shouldn't have done, things I told her not to do." Carl doesn't understand why his wife would have left Ruth with her aunt and gone skating on a November night or why Ruth, when he and she are standing together at Mattie's grave, mentions an "ice baby" that she remembers "when I drowned...
...game--I felt reasonably at home. Having forgotten a lot of gridiron lingo, I had no idea what a "fifth-place schedule" is, but Miller sure did. In fact, my listening to him debate the intricacies of a game I no longer completely understand must be similar to my aunt in Oklahoma trying to keep up with Miller on his HBO show. I can just hear her asking, "Who's this Lina Wertmuller, dear?" Because part of the joy of listening to motormouth Miller is that occasionally he'll stump you, but in the most respectful way. Rather than talk...
...much like Chinquapin, N.C., the impoverished outpost where Kenan grew up "going to hog killings one minute and watching Star Trek the next." He was sent there at six weeks old by his parents, who were unmarried and residing in New York, to be reared by his great-aunt. His upbringing became the collective endeavor of a group of elderly relatives with abiding faith in both religion and folklore who spent endless hours telling fantastical stories--"tales of ghost dogs and people rising from the dead." The residue of these stories has found its way into Kenan's fiction...
...utility repairman and threatened to kill him for no reason. Each time, Earl has come to the city jail to await an opening at the state mental hospital. Huff knows Earl by now and has compassion for him. He remembers how, when he was six, he watched his own aunt make the trip to Whitfield. Of naked Earl in his jail, Huff says, "He doesn't feel like he's losing his mind, because it's so gradual." After forcing Earl out of the cell, Huff and his men put him in the back of a cruiser. With Earl finally...