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Every Good Boy Does Fine
A Novel by Timothy Laskowski
Tim Laskowski’s first novel provides a unique insider’s look into
the world of a brain-injured man. Fourteen years before the novel
opens, Montanan Robert Nyquist suffered traumatic injury in a
rock-climbing accident near Missoula. His once-bright future
irrevocably lost, he writes this account of his present life in a group
home as he starts Transitions, a new rehab program that promises
to teach him the skills necessary to live more independently. His
volunteer writing coach encourages him to articulate his feelings
and helps him to make his work intelligible. In the process of
telling his story, Robert explores the nature of his relationships—
with Lorna, another resident who is dying of multiple sclerosis and
with whom he has established a sexual and emotional bond; with
his parents, who still struggle to accept their son’s disabilities; with
his own son John, whose very existence fills him with uncertainty;
and with his caregivers. Robert is desperate to achieve coherence
and "appropriateness" in the midst of a swirling, confusing reality.
http://www.tamu.edu/upress/BOOKS/2003/laskowski.htm

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