![]() ![]() ![]() Leonard reveals his feelings and plans in first person narrative interspersed with the aforementioned letters and also a series of footnotes he adds, in a reflection of both his sense of humor and his love of learning and truth, in spite of his cruddy life. Yes, if you are thinking this is a depressing book, you would be correct! ![]() He tells us that once he went to the park and watched the pigeons and “I felt so so lonely that I hoped someone would come along and stick a knife into my ribs just so they could have my empty wallet.” ![]() “I know that you really just want everything to end – that you can’t see anything good in your future, that the world looks dark and terrible, and maybe you’re right – the world can definitely be a dreadful place.” In letters he writes to himself from the future (at the urging of his only caring teacher), we learn how he is feeling: In fact, his mother doesn’t even live with him most of the time, since he is attending high school in South Jersey and she is off in New York City working on her fashion design career. This book begins on the morning of Leonard Peacock’s 18th birthday, which even his own mother doesn’t remember. ![]()
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