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Sherleen H. Huang worked with a man. She says she remembers seeing his tattoo. And he had freckles, she adds, smiling...
...this white girl walking with him." Though Slater denies he is a racist -- "I'm white and I'm proud" -- he has been linked directly to antiblack and anti-Semitic literature passed out in local high schools by supporters. His true beliefs are evident in the garish tattoo beneath his white shirt and tie. It features a montage of his heroes, including Hitler, Mussolini and Charles Manson...
...Your family is etched into you like tattoo, something that can make you ashamed or proud. But it is there anyway, occupying a space beneath the skin, at once both a decoration and a scar...
Marti Leimbach's new novel, Sun Dial Street, explores the depth and permanence of this filial "tattoo" and weaves it into the fabric of her witty and sensitive novel with literary innovation. After penning Dying Young, which won her critical acclaim, Leimbach creates an equally bittersweet story that sparks the reader's imagination with its details and elicits a sense of identification with its down-to-earth depiction of events...
...realizes the importance of the "tattoo," the bond that ties the family together; but as he enters the alien realm of his mother and sister's lives, he slowly understands the concept of space. His sister sometimes hates his fraternal interference and his mother ignores his advice. Gradually, each character learns through the trails and tribulations which Leimbach brings home to us so sensitively, that familial relationships precede all others and that the one reliable source of support is the family...