![]() Primrose is 13, fatherless, with an unreliable, sometimes uncaring mother who makes a living as a fortuneteller. The few times he speaks to his grandmother at first are to wound her, discouraging any further efforts at communication. He lives with his father and grandmother and his reaction to profound, crippling grief is to clam up. ![]() ![]() I am not sure it succeeds, but I found myself caring about the two children and the idiosyncrasies each had developed as defense mechanisms.ĭavid is nine, and relatively new in town since the death of his mother less than a year ago. He’s right - the plot is confusing or at least minimal, a framework upon which to hang two sad, interesting characters. I am reading Jerry Spinelli’s 2007 children’s novel Eggs in sync with a sixth-grade boy, and he’s told me while we’re reading it that he isn’t sure what’s going on. ![]()
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