|summary=Growing up in the midst of madness on the shore of the Great Lakes makes a tremendous back-drop for a modern day Huck Finn boys-own adventure against the backdrop of a much more dangerous world. Insights into changes in society and what it might be like to be truly terrified all of the time provide a background weave to this coming of age story.
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It probably tells you a lot about the atmosphere of this book that for the whole time I was reading it, I thought the title was ''If I Fall, I Die''. That missing second ''If'' is probably at the crux of the whole tale.