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| This is a guest post by Cheryl Hannah |
Twelve-year-old
Ambrose is a misfit. He has a life-threatening peanut allergy, a knack for
Scrabble, and an overprotective mum. She “was this close to being a normal
mom,” but then his dad died. While Ambrose understands why she worries he might lift up the toilet
seat, “fall in, and drown,” and understands why she makes him watch the
Stranger Danger video “twenty thousand times,” and understands why she
pulled him from public school to enrol him in correspondence school,
he’s desperate to find a friend.
Ambrose and his mom
live in Kitsilano, in the basement apartment of a nice old Greek couple, the
Economopouloses. It’s right on the bus route to UBC, where Ambrose’s mum works
as a sessional lecturer. Then, one day, the Economopouloses’ son Cosmo shows up
on the doorstep, fresh out of jail …
