He uses his Batpig drawings to navigate things that are hard to put into words. He starts funneling his emotions into learning to play a guitar. I mean wouldn’t you get a little ticked off if all this happened to you?) Ross also meets people who open his … eye to different ways of thinking, communicating, feeling. It’s not all angry outbursts and woe-is-me sadness. Yeah, nice and normal are things of the past.īut there’s good to be found here as well. And to top it off, there’s a new crop of bullies afoot, too: anonymous kids who create and spread terrible memes throughout the middle school, dubbing Ross the “cancer cowboy.” Instead of hanging with best buds Abby and Isaac, avoiding a bully and crushing on the school’s prettiest and coolest girl, he’ll be transformed into a goofy hat-wearing, hair-losing, goopy ointment-covered sideshow with a perpetual wink. Ross is getting his first of forty-five proton radiation zaps that will steal away any hopes of navigating seventh grade normally. It seems that he has a rare cancer there that popped up out of the blue. He’s only got one eye to share.Īs his story starts out, 12-year-old Ross is strapped to a steel table with a giant ray gun contraption aimed at his offending right eye. But Ross Maloy can’t give you that point of view. They say a good story will let you see things through the eyes of its central characters.
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