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Bookloons – July 2006 -- All the Numbers by
Judy Merrill Larsen, Ballantine -- Reviewed by Hilary Williamson --
Ellen Banks is a teacher and a divorced, loving mother of two boys,
Daniel and James - thirteen and eleven respectively. Life is pretty
good and calm, with only the usual minor parenting anxieties, until
one summer day a teen boy on a Jet Ski cuts Ellen's heart open and
leaves it bleeding. The book's title comes from the kind of banter
that all parents engage in with their little ones, around the
question, how much do you love me? 'All the numbers' has become the
shortcut that Ellen and her sons use...
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Booklist – June 4, 2006 -- Larsen, Judy
Merrill. All the Numbers. Aug. 2006. 304p. Ballantine, paper, $13.95
(0-345-48536-X). -- Larsen’s compelling debut opens as Ellen, a
divorced mother of two, takes her son James’ burial outfit to the
funeral home, four days after he was hit by a Jet Skier during their
annual lakeside vacation. Larsen shadows Ellen as she tentatively
makes her way from the mind-numbing hospital vigil and her agonizing
decision to donate James’ organs, on to the funeral, and then the
difficult months of dealing with her grief and that of her older
son. Larsen limns familiar scenarios—Ellen’s return to work and the
ever-present sympathy of her fellow teachers and students, her
immersion in the criminal case against...
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