A Boy Called Never

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Blurb:

Literary Fiction – LGBTQ+ Rep

In 1922, Minnie Evans was born during the Prohibition Era.  Growing up poor, she worked on her family’s farm to help them survive. She navigated The Great Depression, The Dust Bowl, learned to read, married her husband, dug her way out of poverty, had a daughter, lost a daughter, and gained a grandson.

In 1978, Brandon was born in a tiny hospital in a tiny town in Iowa.  The first arms he was ever placed into were his grandmother’s.  His well of energy was bottomless, always running, swimming, dancing—unless he was sleeping, he never seemed to stop moving.  At sixteen years old, a visit to the doctor changed his life.

In 2019, an old woman sits in an office chair in front of a sixteen-year-old boy named Zavier, who is getting his first chemotherapy treatment. “Guess how old I am?” Minnie asks. She’ll be 97 next month so that technically makes her 96 years old.

Over the course of six months, 3 days a week, a 96-year-old woman sits with a boy who has cancer, talks about life, learns about his, shares wisdom, and tells him the story of a boy called “Never.”