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Parker feels the future snatched back from him again. He feels like someone who’s been sentenced to a penal colony on another world, or like the astronaut he sees in science-fiction movies always floating in space, with that single fragile line the only thing that connects him to home, or something with the name of home — the line you know is bound to break.

The “bathroom,” the boy is mortified to observe, isn’t separate but part of the same single room where the beds are. “You can sleep in the tub,” Zan tries to joke about the large white porcelain bowl that is the room’s most prominent furniture. Parker glares at him. He refuses to take a bath. When he goes to the bathroom he insists on turning out the room’s light, sitting on the toilet and finally managing to pee by pretending his father doesn’t exist.


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