![]() This, plus a bad trip when Adam adds acid to his established pot habit (the joints are rolled on Zigzag brand paper), jolts him into therapy and also into accepting what seems to be the right school at last. Schools are changed and tutors and counselors engaged with varying success with junior high comes independence and dubious friends purveying escape through drugs, one of whom steals some things from the family's Manhattan apartment. His parents are supportive but, both involved in theater, otherwise engaged older sister Caroline, who inherited a milder dyslexia from their mother, justly feels that Adam gets more than his share of attention. Though Adam is bright and has numerous gifts, his learning problems lead to academic failures and the pain of being thought lazy by insensitive teachers. ![]() The author of Lone Star (1990), who's also an award-winning actress, describes a dyslexic's troubles and their eventual resolution in a narrative that alert readers will suspect is largely autobiographical. ![]()
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