Don't Bullshit Me Daddy

<p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>'How do birds see the world? Do they have a totally different way of experiencing life than humans do? Are they stoic? Is their threshold of pain and loneliness completely different from ours?</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Can a bird die of a broken heart?</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>'In case you haven't figured it out what I'm trying to say is that when I was six years old and had a guinea pig I didn't ask any of these kinds of questions. The guinea pig was just a damn guinea pig and I petted it and fed it and cleaned its cage but I sure as hell didn't worry about a zillion ramifications of its mental condition. I'm trying to say that with age - in my case from six to sixteen - the world has become a whole lot more complicated.'</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>After witnessing the death of her mother at the age of eight life is never going to be simple for Laura Winger... but from Disneyland to Venice her dad succeeds in making it a whole lot easier.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>If reading Salinger's </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Catcher in the Rye </em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>moved you because of the narrator's unease with childhood transitioning to adolescence Ferguson's narrator in </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Don't Bullshit Me Daddy - </em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>16-year-old Laura Winger </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>- </em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>will move you to </span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>embrace</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> the inescapable rite of passage into old age and certain mortality. Yes there are still some 'phonies' out there but this novel - rather than being about the loss of innocence - affirms that innocence exists in everyone.</span></p>