{"id":2325,"date":"2021-07-20T22:16:14","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T05:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.breakingcodesilence.org\/?p=2325"},"modified":"2021-07-21T14:31:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T21:31:00","slug":"oh-the-glory-of-it-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.breakingcodesilence.org\/oh-the-glory-of-it-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh the Glory of it All"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh the Glory of it All<\/strong> <\/a>\u2013 By Sean Wilsey\u00a0\u2013 When Sean, \u201cthe kind of child who sings songs to sick flowers,\u201d turns nine years old, his father divorces his mother and marries her best friend. Sean\u2019s life blows apart. His mother first invites him to commit suicide with her, then has a \u201cvision\u201d of salvation that requires packing her Louis Vuitton luggage and traveling the globe, a retinue of multiracial children in tow. Her goal: peace on earth (and a Nobel Prize). Sean meets Indira Gandhi, Helmut Kohl, Menachem Begin, and the pope, hoping each one might come back to San Francisco and persuade his father to rejoin the family. Instead, Sean is pushed out of San Francisco and sent spiraling through five high schools, till he finally lands at an unorthodox reform school cum \u201ctherapeutic community,\u201d in Italy.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>