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Sam and Tommy explore the subway tunnels of memory. (Sam/Tracy implied)
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Aaaaaah, Sam! Tracy! TOMMY! I love you all! Also the opening amazes me:
"Tommy is named after Thomas Edison and somebody his father never met, a boy who drowned before Tommy was born. He was Sam Clay's first cousin, from Czechoslovakia, and he died in the war, or just before the war began, the day before Pearl Harbor was bombed. He was thirteen years old. Tommy is ten, but he can count backward, and it occurs to him that this was the month after he, Tommy, was conceived.
He is not convinced that this is the whole story, because there's a third Thomas, one his old man knows better than anyone else. The Escapist."
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Sam Clay, subway tunnels, and what might have been. There's a powerful sense of place in this story, as well as complex characterization that shows both Sam's genuine love for his family and his yearning for what he's lost.
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Sammy and Tommy, after. I cried.
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