![]() ![]() This is a delightfully taut, intense take on the fake-returned-kid plot, and our duplicitous hero is a highly satisfying focus as he veers between consideration of his own advantage and genuine affection for his troubled new family and for a girl at school, to whom he’d really like to tell the truth. In fact, as our protagonist ensconces himself deeper into the family, he begins to wonder if he’s not the only con in the arrangement-and if maybe he’s actually the mark. “Danny” treads carefully as he is received with joy by his rich Californian family, and he soon realizes that family is a trainwreck, with Mom an aimless alcoholic with a mystery, her first husband dead from suicide, and Danny’s father in prison. ![]() A scam with the biggest risks I’d taken on but also the biggest rewards.” So says our narrator, who cannily evaded trouble in Canada by claiming to be Daniel Tate, a sixteen-year-old American teen who’s been missing for six years. ![]() “Somehow I had stumbled on the con of a lifetime. ![]()
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