![]() Both have given up on life in some way, and the friendship they share affects them deeply. Toby ends up helping her around the house learning to milk Blossom the cow, tend her garden and read poetry. Out riding his bike one day, he sees a crazy, witchy woman screaming at the crows threatening her garden. Toby meets Pearl while spending time at a cabin in the country with his mom. Yet, Toby muses, None of these differences mattered, they were friends just the same. He watches television, surfs the Web and gets scanned by magnetic resonance imaging. Toby is 11, a skinny, bald boy with eyes too big for his face. But now she is going blind, though her milky blue eyes still see much in her new friend. She grew up in a time when reading was a pleasure and reading together could be romantic. She milks cows, grows tomatoes and writes poetry. ![]() Pearl is 94, born before television or computers or cell phones. In Valerie Hobbs’ new novel, Defiance, we are introduced to two people from different worlds. ![]()
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