Fiction by Catherine Ryan Hyde
Lewis Madigan is having a really bad day, and his crotchety neighbor Chester Wheeler manages to make it worse with his snide comments. Chester is wheelchair bound and almost totally dependent on a caregiver, but you'd never know it from the way the old man keeps driving nurses and helpers off, to the despair of his grown daughter. But Lewis is also out of work, and when Chester's daughter offers him the job of temporarily caring for Chester, Lewis is hard-pressed to refuse.
But why is Chester so hateful? Is here a kernel of good underneath his mean-old-man bluster? This was a really good character story that gave me a lot to think about.
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Life, Loss, and Puffins
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