![]() ![]() The media paints Faye as a radical hippie with a sordid past, but as far as Samuel knows, his mother was an ordinary girl who married her high-school sweetheart. ![]() Now she has suddenly reappeared, having committed an absurd politically motivated crime that electrifies the nightly news, beguiles the Internet, and inflames a divided America. He hasn't seen his mother, Faye, in decades, not since she abandoned her family when he was a boy. Meet Samuel: stalled writer, bored teacher at a local college, obsessive player of online video games. Maybe he could have acted differently, spoken differently, been a different person. He might have listened more carefully to her, observed her more closely, written certain crucial things down. If Samuel had known his mother was leaving, he might have paid more attention. ![]()
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