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Knopf
February 2008
On Sale: February 5, 2008
288 pages
ISBN: 030726372X
EAN: 9780307263728
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Fiction
When the boy was almost eight, a woman stepped out of the
elevator into the apartment on East Sixty-second Street and
he recognized her straightaway. No one had told him to
expect it. That was pretty typical of growing up with
Grandma Selkirk . . . No one would dream of saying, Here is
your mother returned to you.
His Illegal
Self is the story of Che—raised in isolated privilege by
his New York grandmother, he is the precocious son of
radical student activists at Harvard in the late sixties.
Yearning for his famous outlaw parents, denied all access to
television and the news, he takes hope from his long-haired
teenage neighbor, who predicts, They will come for you,
man. They’ll break you out of here.
Soon Che too
is an outlaw: fleeing down subways, abandoning seedy motels
at night, he is pitched into a journey that leads him to a
hippie commune in the jungle of tropical Queensland. Here he
slowly, bravely confronts his life, learning that nothing is
what it seems. Who is his real mother? Was that his real
father? If all he suspects is true, what should he
do?
Never sentimental, His Illegal Self is an
achingly beautiful story of the love between a young woman
and a little boy. It may make you cry more than once before
it lifts your spirit in the most lovely, artful, unexpected way.
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