The Way the Family Got Away
Michael Kimball
First published in Great Britain in 2000 by
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Source ISBN: 9780007292073
Ebook Edition © FEBRUARY 2016 ISBN: 9780007394913 Version: 2016-01-12
For Bompa
The baby lived inside a world that was smaller and older where they still traveled by carriage and spoke a bawling language.
Bompa
The bawling language was small and died inside the baby and inside the bodies of everybody who could hear it.
Bompa
whah whaahh uuhhh dahhh dadadadada mabadaduwigo
My Little Brother
Contents
Our House-Car, Bompa’s House, Going to Heaven, and When We Could Start Living Again
My Doll-Me, My People-Me, and the Way My Doll-Family Got Away
Hot Springs to North Little Rock