He keeps a notebook filled with the questions he wants answered when he can get access to Google again. Genie feels a little lost without the internet, something his grandparents’ house does not have. Tensions run high in the house until their parents leave. He is shocked to learn that his grandpop is blind from glaucoma. Genie, always observant and never without questions, hopes they do not wind up getting a divorce.ĭue to his dad’s deep-rooted anger toward his father, Genie has not seen his grandparents since he was a baby, although they talk monthly on the phone. They leave the boys with their grandparents for a month, in hopes that they can salvage their crumbling marriage. Their parents have driven through the night from their home in Brooklyn to the backwoods of Virginia. Genie, 11, and his soon-to-be 14-year-old brother, Ernie, had not thought they would spend the summer in the country scooping dog poop, but that is what they end up doing.
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