
What they do not know, the cause of the argument, is crucial to the story of me. The story lurking underneath and in between the facts of the one they can see. What they do not know is that there is another story. It is, in other people’s opinions, not important to the story. No one ever says what they were arguing about. In a few weeks, Finny would be turning nineteen. It was raining, of course, and with his girlfriend, Sylvie Whitehouse, he glided through the rain in the red car his father had given him on his sixteenth birthday. I wasn’t with Finny on that August night, but my imagination has burned the scene in my mind so that it feels like a memory. Without you, I wouldn’t have known how to Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data is on file with the publisher. Published by Sourcebooks Fire, an imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental and not intended by the author. The characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious or are used fictitiously. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems-except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews-without permission in writing from its publisher, Sourcebooks, Inc. Sourcebooks and the colophon are registered trademarks of Sourcebooks, Inc.Īll rights reserved.

Newsom in office.Cover and internal design © 2013 by Sourcebooks, Inc. Gavin Newsom in the attempted recall, and would have succeeded him had voters not overwhelmingly chosen to keep Mr. Elder, a Los Angeles Republican who bills himself as “the sage from South Central,” was the top vote-getter among challengers to Gov. I feel I have a moral, religious and a patriotic duty to give back to a country that’s been so good to my family and me.

I’m the only one who didn’t serve, and I don’t feel good about that. My little brother Dennis actually served in Vietnam in the Army. He was a Marine.” He added: “My older brother, late older brother, Kirk, was in the Navy during the Vietnam era. Ron DeSantis of Florida, who has not yet made his run official. He made the announcement on Tucker Carlson’s show on Fox News, joining a growing Republican field that is led by former President Donald J.

Larry Elder, a conservative talk radio host who was a breakout star on the right after running unsuccessfully in California’s recall election in 2021, said on Thursday evening that he was running for president.
