Census
By: Jesse Ball
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9780062676139
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Voyages and travels; Terminally ill; Census takers (Persons); Down syndrome; Fathers and sons; Fiction
Description: Learning that he does not have long to live, a widower needs to figure out how to provide for his developmentally disabled adult son. Taking a job as a census taker, the two leave on a cross-country journey through towns named only by ascending letters of the alphabet. They meet the townspeople, some of whom welcome them into their homes, while others who bear the physical brand of past censuses on their ribs are wary of their presence. As they approach "Z," the man must confront the purpose of the census, and decide how to say good-bye to his son.