Thursday, November 18, 2004

Trueman, Terry. Cruise Control

Paul is an all around great guy. He's a great student. A great athlete. A great brother. But he sometimes finds it hard to be a great brother. You see, his brother is a veg. A lump in a wheelchair, drooling, incoherent veg. Paul won't let anyone else call Shawn that but he can. He really does love his brother but it is really hard to love someone like that. And that makes him very angry. Paul has a terrible temper. He gets into fights for no reason. Someday he will surely go too far and hurt someone seriously. He is mostly angry at his father for leaving the family when the going got tough. Now he makes a living writing about Shawn and how hard it is to live with someone who is severly disabled. How would he know? He is never around. A companion to Trueman's earlier novel, Stuck in Neutral, this book is Paul's story.

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