If this is based upon real life in some small sense, why not lead with that? Maybe I missed something stating that, but I don’t recall it. It wasn’t until I read the discussion from the author after the story was over that I came to realize how much of this was based in reality. Here I was thinking I was just getting something vaguely Fisher King-esque, only for kids. Little did I know, it was ripped from reality and spiced up with some narrative flair […]