This book is the heartbreaking tale of Henry, and ex-con living in his truck with his son, Henry junior (Junior). The novel opens on Junior’s 8th birthday, but it jumps back and forth in time to explain how Henry and his son came to be living in a truck, desperately counting change at a McDonald’s trying to get his son a celebratory Big Mac meal.  In alternating chapters we learn more about Henry, whose Filipino father had wanted to be professor and loved literature, and […]