So universal that we smart with recognition as our sides ache from laughing. With all of the tenderness and soul we have come to expect in his work, Nordan proves lightning can strike again. . . . He delivers another powerful novel. There's great pain in love, but we don't care. Petersburg Times Leroy Dearman, who lives on a llama farm in Mississippi, is twelve.
Life is perfect.
True, his grandfather just died in the attic, and wild dogs kill a baby llama now and then. True one little sister curses him and the other one wets her pants. But mostly life is right out of a Walt Disney movie. Then Uncle Harris arrives in a sports car, full of funny stories and new ideas. He persuades Leroy's straitlaced parents to join him for cocktails in the evening.