Culture
This word from Chapter 1 refers to skillful use of one's hands when performing conjuring tricks: (a) Imperialism; (b) Antagonism; (c) Legerdemain; (d) Gregarious
What is (c) Legerdemain?
The author's family business
What is a funeral home?
This animal might have caused her father to jump back into the road.
What is a snake?
The boy’s name young Alison tries to take.
What is Albert?
The country where Bruce and Helen get married.
What is Germany?
The father's attention to detail, love of books, and need for an esthetic and intellectual world suggests he molded his life off of this author
What is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
The number of brothers Alison has.
What is two?
The father's age when he dies
What is 44?
The colour Alison coloured the gypsy caravan from Wind in the Willows
What is midnight blue?
The number of residents Alison describes living in her hometown in chapter 5
What is 800?
The author compares her relationship to her father with these two characters from a Greek legend.
What is Daedalus and Icarus?
The name of the author's youngest brother
What is John?
The babysitter whom Bruce had an affair with
What is Roy?
Alison's age when her obsessive compulsive behaviours began
What is ten?
The Road the father just crossed to toss an armload over the bank when he was hit by a truck
What is Route 150?
The title of Chapter 2: ‘A Happy Death’ alludes to a novel written by which author?
What is Albert Camus?
The number of gestures of affection the author recalls seeing between her parents
What is 2?
The company to which the truck that hit Alison’s father belonged
What is Sunbeam Bread?
The author’s favourite illustration from Wind in the Willows
What is the map?
The mountains over which the sun rises at the beginning of chapter 5
What is Bald Eagle Mountains?
The title of Chapter 3: 'That Old Catastrophe' is an allusion to which poem by Wallace Stevens?
What is "Sunday Morning"?
The play Bruce and Helen were performing when they met.
What is The Taming of the Shrew?
The name of the mailman who helps Bruce when he is stuck in the mud.
What is Mort?
The way Alison tells her parents she is gay
What is by letter?
On a trip to this city Alison sees a butch woman for the first time
What is Philadelphia?