The End Of The World As We Know It (2007) - Plot & Excerpts
It was a month and two days after my fourth birthday. I was a handsome little boy, beautiful my mother said. I didn’t look a thing like I look now. I looked hopeful. I looked as though life was riveting with possibility. I was in my mother and father’s bed, in a pair of short striped pajamas. I was in my mother and father’s bed because the next day was my aunt’s wedding, and there were houseguests. I had gone to bed in my own bed and, after all the guests had left and the bartender Tiny had cleaned off the bar and washed all the glasses and the drinking had finally stopped for the night, I had been carried into my mother and father’s bed so that one of the houseguests could sleep in mine. My mother and father were always having houseguests, house parties, and it wasn’t a big house, it had five bedrooms but everybody was young and they liked camping out, and my parents were such lovely hosts, so the children were sort of shuffled around: my parents’ bed, a chaise longue in my parents’ room, or army cots set up in corners.
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