My Father's Diet Alex Runchman J M G Le Clézio:

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My Father's Diet Alex Runchman J M G Le Clézio:In a broken down Middle American town, the disintegration of a struggling family its ambitions and emotions worn thin is laid bare through the cold eyes of its only son. While studying at the local community college to finish his degree, he works what his divorced parents deem to be menial jobs and tries to stay out of their way, keeping his pitiless observations about their lives to himself. He says nothing about his semi estranged fathers doomed