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soccer team? in 1967?

Frankie’s prim and proper old-money mother suddenly writing about boobs in a letter.

Maybe she’d know about the Farmworker Movement?

Civil Rights Act was 1964. Freedom Riders were 1963. But maybe Frankie’s mother just didn’t read the news or watch TV?

I’m wondering if the author will use the G-word. Frankie is already surprisingly blasé about race for her background.

“contentious” French-occupation. Funny

Frankie is Clara Barton

Nice that Frankie got a mentor first day. Thank you, Frankie, for being the audience surrogate.

I’m getting flashbacks of M*A*S*H and Platoon,

on the same day?

to be honest, first year of nursing is still like this.

So confused. I misread the date. It’s 1966. Rye is, like, 10 years late with his “the world is changing” comment. Bob Dylan went electric by 1966.

A quick google search search says *check notes* US involvement in Vietnam in 1962 was covert and top secret. Probably not great that Frankie’s parents are throwing a going away party?

Aside: I’d love to read a book that inverted this trope. something like, “…marriage and fatherhood. No one had ever suggested any future for Billy beyond serving his country with honor and then take over the family real estate business.”

So confused: does the character not know about bandaids? They’re like $2

Actually, coffee is an expectorant not an anti-inflammatory

Actually, if your kid’s asthma is so bad that his fingers turn blue, then you’d probably have a nebulizer instead of just an inhaler. Also, if your kids fingers turning blue, you need to take them to an emergency room.

No joke: author wrote a long wikipedia page in this book.

I’ve never met a woman who so comfortably approached a strange man in an isolated place.

I guess I was foolish to think this book would not have a Heathcliff.

Lol. — “Animal snarl”

What. What is this, Twilight?

Authors are so strange sometimes: What century was the last time the author went to a library? All librarians need a proof of address.

Ridiculous. And Kent is ridiculous too.

There’s absolutely no way that Kent thought that Jordan was going to be drafted by the Bulls, much less 6 to 7 months before the draft. That’s insane.

ugh, third person limited sometimes…

All William said was ‘hey, must be hard that your dad died,’ and now Sylvie says “no one had understood her [like William had].”

if this is the 80s, then why is the couple acting like they’re in the 50s?

“I’ve never read any like it”? It reads like a basic history textbook. It reads like a wikipedia page.

It’s a bit Jack Torrance for William to write “I’m terrible” in his own manuscript.