I was thirteen and in Mister Scott’s class for English at Byron Junior High School. A new student at the school that fall, I had somehow failed to receive the list of summer reading books for that class, and thus landed in class with an ungainly, unprepared thud, smack into the opening chapters, which I had not read, of John Hersey’s scarifying Hiroshi…
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