Word: knit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...holiday season, and Tad Leary really needs to knit up all that the year has unraveled. Tad has broken up with his boyfriend, lost his Manhattan apartment and found himself fired from his teaching job at the lauded Excelsior prep school. During a single day right before Christmas, Tad embarks on a round of partygoing that takes him through his past, and, he hopes, will help him make sense...
...becomes a closer event," Porges says. "I think at one time pre-randomization, it might have lived up to its name more accurately, but now it provides a closer knit environment...
Leaders of AEPi say they hope to create a tight-knit group by organizing regular dinners and athletic events...
This is despite its more shocking plot. Unlike the Boatwrights of Bastard, a lively and tightly-knit group of ne'er-do-wells, the Johnsons are isolated from their extended family and ruthless towards each other, each one capable of horrible acts of cruelty. The main culprit is the father, Bill Sr., a vicious drunk who between jail stints beats his wife and children and sexually abuses his daughter Jean. Billy Jr., the dead man of the title, responds to the abuse by becoming his father's replica, repeating his father's acts first with Jean, then with...
...BBSes (bulletin board systems), which were most times run by people out of their homes, contained illegal software to download. The precious phone numbers of these BBSes were passed around among friends in a sort of Underground Railroad of computer users. His high school computer lab was a close-knit community where more experienced users shared their knowledge with younger users eager to soak up their expertise. Information was not withheld for selfish reasons, but disseminated among everybody in order to spread computer intelligence. His prose makes a family concept continually come to mind throughout the middle of the book...