A 'Wonder' to behold
by Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
Nov 22, 2017
3 minutes
Popular mythology notwithstanding, childhood is difficult for almost everyone. But especially so for 10-year-old August Pullman.
"I know I'm not an ordinary kid," Auggie Pullman explains in the opening paragraph of the young adult novel "Wonder." Yes, he does ordinary things, "but I know ordinary kids don't make other ordinary kids run away screaming in playgrounds. I know ordinary kids don't get stared at wherever they go."
Rare genetic abnormalities, it turns out, have led to facial disfiguration
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