Yet even as he and Wade compete for the top spots on the baseball and football teams, they become friends. Jesse doesn’t seem to know how an Indian “should” act. “When Jesse Howl arrives from the Klamath Warm Springs Reservation, his presence shakes up the town.
But Wade’s box is too comfortable and she can’t make him understand. She tries to show Wade that Calamus is a trap, that as an individual he should fear the town’s rigid “boxes” and expectations. Fiercely independent and an avid reader of the kinds of books that aren’t taught in school, Lorna wants a bigger life.
“Lorna, working to support her family, is plotting her escape from their small town. In a small logging town called Calamus that’s about as far in the middle of nowhere as you can get, Wade Curren, star of the high school baseball and football teams, is content living out his role of local hero, holding court in the corner booth of the town diner where his girlfriend Lorna waits tables.
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