One for the Books: Misfits find friendship

One for the Books: Misfits find friendship

- Mary Louise Ruehr

If I don’t like the characters in a novel, I usually don’t care what happens to them. But I love the characters in “The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell” by Robert Dugoni, and consequently, I eagerly followed their escapades.

Samuel Hill narrates his own story of life with a particular problem. He was born in 1957 with “ocular albinism,” a rare condition that causes him to have red eyes. It will also cause unfriendly or superstitious people to refer to him as “the devil boy” and to transform his name into “Sam Hell.”

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