![]() ![]() I think many will be comforted by it and I’m sure many will learn from it. ![]() Xander and Jim don’t seem to see eye to eye on anything and it’s getting increasingly harder for Xander to truly be himself around his father. Stevens uses this short story to introduce us to Xander and his uncomfortable dinners with his father and his second wife, Kathy. This book sends out a powerful message to all. The Wallace House of Pain: A Novelette centers around Xander and his estranged father, Jim. The result was her middle-grade novel Shannon's Odyssey, written for adventurous animal-lovers. Stevens found the time to pen her first novel when a pelvis broken in 3 places absolved her from housework and chauffering the kids around for several months. As a parent of two adult children, who I love unconditionally, I think it’s desperately sad that so many others deal with trying to live a lie for fear of being made to feel they’re somehow less worthy of love and acceptance. After many years as a business writer, S.M. Something we all know many, many young people go through every day. He feels like he’s been unable to grieve properly for his mother and he is convinced his father won’t accept him for who he really is. A father who isn’t overly accepting of those who aren’t his kind of ‘normal’. ![]() Xander is trying to connect with his father though. ![]() His step-mum always playing the dutiful wife, and always seemingly interested in getting to know her guests. This novelette is set over several evenings where Xander takes a different friend to his father’s for dinner. Xander is dealing with the loss of his mother and craving the love and acceptance of his father who re-married within a year and never mentions the wife he lost. The Wallace House of Pain tells Xander’s story. ![]()
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