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Plot Summary of The Big Book of Misunderstanding
""This is some of the most perceptive writing on childhood I've come across." -- Joseph Olshan, bestselling author of CLARA'S HEART

An entire family comes of age simultaneously as two sons' teenage years shake their parents out of arrested adolescence."

Jim Gladstone, Resident Scholar




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Plot
Tone of book? - thoughtful
Kids growing up/acting up? Yes
Family, struggle with Yes
Struggle with: - Father (or standin) - Mother (or standin) - Grandpa - Brother
Family, loving relations Yes
Special relationship with - father
Internal struggle/realization? Yes
Struggle over - vague finding self/purpose in life (i.e. no plot to book)
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Age group of kid(s) in story: - high school
Parents/lack of parents problem? - rebelling against parent's expectations

Main Character
Gender - Male
Profession/status: - student
Age: - a teen
Eccentric/Mental Yes
Eccentric: - eccentric
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male
Age: - 40's-50's
Profession/status: - a lawyer creature
Eccentric/Smart/Dumb: Yes
Eccentric: - obsessed - eccentric
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - a substantial amount
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings? - 5 ()
United States Yes
The US: - Northeast
City? Yes

Style
Person - mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death? - generic/vague references to death/punishment
Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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