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The Secret Life of Rat Boy by Mark Wekander (Paperback / softback, 2013)

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Michael Durbin spends his first nine years with Maron Halvorsen, an aging religious fanatic who has decided that he is retarded and that God wants her to isolate him from the world. They live with Johann, her husband who is in the final stages of Parkinson's. As Michael gets older, he escapes to the second-floor where Maron, crippled by arthritis, cant reach him. In the dark filthy second floor of the house, behind windows glazed by soot and dirt, he invents his own world, chants snatches of conversations he overhears, Bible verses, prayers. When Maron dies, he is discovered lying in a nest of old photographs, his face dirty and his hair wild. The press gives him the name of Rat Boy and he enters the County Farm with this nickname and receives many others. Here he learns about sex, friendship, betrayal and encounters religious fanaticism again. A parallel narrative records the attempt of Bernice Ylvesaker to write the life story of Michael Durbin as a favor to a fellow county home patient Joshua Brent, who has taken an interest in Michael.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Rubber Tree Press the
ISBN-10
0984944737
ISBN-13
9780984944736
eBay Product ID (ePID)
184559631

Product Key Features

Author
Mark Wekander
Format
Paperback / Softback, Trade Paperback (US) ,Unsewn / Adhesive Bound
Language
English
Topic
General & Literary Fiction

Additional Product Features

Content Note
Black & White Illustrations
Author Biography
Mark Wekander is the author of the novel Iowa's New Corn Goddess, the books of poems Partial Places and Bugs have Us Surrounded, a young teen book Thomas Twofeet and the Rubber Tree and a children's book Cesar Alejandro Napoleon Colon and the Missing Pumpkin. Most of these titles can be found on Amazon and with the exception of Thomas Twofeet and the Rubber Tree which can be purchased at Blurb. He is presently on leave from the University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras.
Date of Publication
06/12/2013
Country of Publication
United States

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