Stitches a memoir by david small6/30/2023 But when she motions for him to follow, Small gives us his decision in white text on a final, all-black page: "I didn't." It's his mom clearing a path up the steps to the asylum where his grandmother died, making room for him in the family madhouse. One day, however, he sneezes while controlling the car from behind a window, and accidentally drives it into a fountain.Īs he contemplates going outside to get it, he hears the sound of someone sweeping, and he looks over the garden wall for the first time. Like most of David's dreams, this one gets really heartbreaking really fast: he can't leave the house, so he experiences the world via a small remote-control car. However, David's dreams are often as depressing and disturbing as his real life, so when he ends the book with a dream that he's a shut-in, you fear that he's become just as screwed-up as the adults who raised him. Sure, there's the one about the algebra test you haven't studied for (that one's the worst), but dreams are also where you get to flap your arms and fly or make out with your favorite celebrity. In general, dreams offer an escape from real life.
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