The Eye of the Sheep by Sofie Laguna5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() Equally distressing and uplifting, every moment of pain is juxtaposed with the light we see in the central figure of Jimmy. Sofie Laguna tackles the intricacies of love and marriage, brotherhood, power dynamics, medical issues and the definition of family – her novel is a mixture of the brutality found in Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones and the pain in John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars. It works as a reminder that having a child with special needs is not an impossible task it is a challenge that runs alongside complexities faced by many families. The Eye of the Sheep follows Jimmy’s journey as he tries to understand himself and the world around him. He loves so deeply that the cells in his body spin uncontrollably. ![]() He becomes manic when the lawnmower is being used and is anxious about his dad ‘hitting the hard stuff’. He worries about her weight, and obsesses over the mechanisms of the tumble dryer and about his relationship with his brother. At age six, he reads instruction manuals to his mother. Where we see our parents, friends or siblings, he sees internal organs and blood rushing through their veins. ![]()
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