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The Crazy Man

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Description

It is 1965, and 12-year-old Emaline, living on a wheat farm, will have to maintain a circle of relatives that may be falling apart. When her dog, Prince, chases a hare into the path of the tractor, she chases after him, and her father unintentionally runs over her leg, leaving her with a long convalescence and a permanent disability. Even worse, from Emaline’s viewpoint, is that in his grief and guilt, her father shoots Prince and leaves Emaline and her mother on their very own.

Despite the neighbors’ disapproval, Emaline’s mother hires Angus, a patient from the local mental hospital, to work their fields. Angus is a red-haired giant whom the local children tease and call “the gorilla.” Though the small town’s prejudice creates a cloud of suspicion around Angus that nearly ends up in tragedy, he just may hold the important thing to Emaline’s coming to grips with her injury and the lack of her father.

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