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The accidental death in February 1965 of Jimmy Diehl, just 14, sent the entire Diehl family into a downward spiral. But this searching, unsparing memoir by Margaret Diehl (just 9 when her brother died) suggests that there were plenty of demons lurking in their spacious Montclair, New Jersey, home long before a car hit Jimmy's green bicycle. Her handsome, sexy parents' lives were perfumed with the scents of cocktails and cigarette smoke. When he came home from his high-powered job in book publishing, her volatile father pushed his children away with angry words and retreated into solitude; he killed himself just a few months after Jimmy's death. Her mother moved the family to New York City, where she spent her afternoons shopping and her evenings on dates ("What else? What do ladies do?") while the three remaining children floundered. Margaret, the youngest, retreated into the fairy tales and fantasy books she had always loved; she and her sister resented the special attention their angry, unruly brother, Johnny, received. Looking back as an adult on those troubled times, Diehl delineates the stages of grief with poetic specificity. She survived, but her frank account makes it clear that a tragedy of such proportions was "like a meteorite pinning my life under it." --Wendy Smith
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The Boy on the Green Bicycle
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