Upward Bound

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A wondrous, deeply affecting portrait of the interlocking lives at an adult day care center in Southern California, depicting an often overlooked community with extraordinary wit and grace-by a major new literary voice hailed as a "groundbreaking debut novelist" (Publishers Weekly) "Implosive and wonderfully inspirational."-Paul Beatty "An unparalleled achievement, and a treasure."-Rivka Galchen "Woody Brown accomplishes the seemingly impossible."-Mona Simpson Upward Bound is not a place anyone dreams of spending their days. The dreary adult daycare center for Los Angeles's disabled community is, for many of its clients and staff, a place of last resort. This includes Carlos, a young aide who lost his mother as a boy and now works there alongside his beloved sister Mariana; Jorge, the gentle nonspeaking giant whom Carlos seeks to befriend (and prevent from escaping); Tom, a beautiful young man with cerebral palsy, who pines for Ann, the summer lifeguard at the center's pool who feels out of her depth; ...