![]() When Leo gets the part of “old crone” in the school play, he analyzes that character, but more important, he examines his own life’s role, and that of his once-vivacious, now distant father. Papa says Leo can make “gold from pebbles,” and indeed, in Leo’s amusingly grandiose imaginings, readers will behold the often-stumbling, invisible-feeling boy emerge as the Nobel Prize winner or famous actor he was (possibly) born to be. ![]() One of four children in a large, chaotic Italian-American family, 12-year-old Leo is nicknamed “sardine” because he once said he felt squished like one, and occasionally “fog boy” because he slips into thoughtful trances where he “replays” life’s disappointing scenarios. ![]()
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