![]() ![]() While Lily doesn't consider this apology fitting, it's just what Pop needs to reconsider his feelings toward Lonnie. Still feeling like he didn't do anything worthy of apologizing for, Lonnie tells Nan to tell Pop he's sorry Pop's old dog died. Because Lily won't shut up about wanting the party to be a beautiful, perfect day, though, Lonnie finally goes to Pop's house-while Pop is out. Lonnie's relationship with Clara escalates to the point of getting engaged, and he is afraid that because of Pop's racist tendencies, Pop will reject her, and by extension, him. Pop, however, tells her she should go, because as Clara's mother, it's still "her right."Īs Nan's party preparations get underway, Lily becomes more and more determined to get Pop and Lonnie to make up. Rose really wants to go see her daughter's dorm room, but has been afraid of overstepping boundaries. After initially being irritated with Pop due to an insensitive remark about her race, the two quickly bond over their prodigal children. On a trip to visit his old neighborhood, Pop has a chance meeting with Clara's mother, Rose, who grew up in the same neighborhood years after him. Still, she feels that her bizarre family, her responsibilities of cooking and cleaning at home, and her short, stocky appearance will keep him from being interested. From hanging around the junior class lounge to joining the school production of Hamlet as a prompter, Lily is determined to get Mr. Her victim? Junior class thespian and all-around stud, Daniel Steadman. In her mind, there's only one solution to this problem: She has to fall in love. But still, it gives Clara and Lonnie something they can identify with in each other.Īfter an awkward lunch with her girlfriends at school where she feels left of out of discussions about fashion, boys, and appearances, Lily decides that her position at home is making her age too fast. ![]() That's kind of an extreme reaction to a thesis topic. Clara's family has also written her off-her dad disapproved of her choice of focus for her senior thesis, so she left home, and he no longer considers her his daughter. He eventually has the opportunity, though, to have a crush on a real live girl when he meets Clara, a student in one of his lit classes. Over at Mercer College, Lonnie is studying English and is obsessed with 19th-century novelist Emily Brontë to the point of having a creepy crush on her. Not only will the family get to celebrate, but the conflict between him and her grandson will finally be resolved. Since her husband is about to turn eighty, Nan decides to throw him a birthday party. Second, she knows that something has to be done to get the family back together after The Great Lonnie and Pop Schism. They got separated when Sef was suddenly adopted. First, Sef technically isn't an imaginary friend because as a child in an orphanage, she actually did have a friend named Sef. Nan may have a few rolling around on the floor, but she does know two things. Her grandmother, Nan, also has an imaginary friend named Sef and Lily thinks she might be losing her marbles. ![]() As a result of this confrontation, Lonnie moved to a boarding house near his university, Lily hasn't seen him in months, and her mom spends way too much worrying about him when he's a big boy and can take care of himself. What else? Lonnie and her grandfather, Stan, whom she calls Pop, aren't speaking to each other because Pop threatened him with an ax after Lonnie changed his major for about the fiftieth time. ![]() On top of that, her mom has a really annoying habit of bringing home elderly people from the center to chill with them for the weekend. Because her mom works long hours as a psychologist at an adult day care center, it falls to Lily to clean, cook, and do basically every domestic housekeeping job you can think of. For one thing, she lives alone with her mom-her dad left before she was born, and her brother, Lonnie, moved out (more on this later). It's a hard-knock life for Lily Samson, who comes from the weirdest family of all time. ![]()
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