He learns a little bit about his step-mother, Ellie’s, life before she was widowed and how she learned about and coped with Twink’s condition. Harry and his family spend the day at Twink’s school picnic, where he reacts with both interest and revulsion in the presence of the other students, who suffer from brain damage, birth defects or “CP”. Mary Jane’s head wasn’t turned in my direction, and Twink couldn’t even see. I tried to smile hello when I realized how dumb that was. “This,” she said pointing, “is Twink.” And this is one of her friends, Mary Jane. My stepmother slid around in her seat and motioned at the pair of girls behind her.
His father and stepmother meet him at the airport in a rented VW Bus: Harry has insisted upon meeting Twink for the first time, who lives in a residential school near St. The first part is told from Harry’s point of view, as he returns to the Midwest from his New England boarding school, at some point after his mother has died and his father has remarried to a widow with two daughters, college-aged Whizzer and 17-year-old Twink. The Plot: This novel is so brief, there is not much beyond that to say about it. Twink, (or as my copy notes “ Twink, formerly Touching”) (STOP LAUGHING) deals with a 16-year-old prep school student meeting his step-sister, who is afflicted with Cerebral Palsy, for the first time. John Neufeld is best known for his novel Lisa, Bright and Dark, which was made into a popular TV movie in 1973.
Some of these have aged better than others. The 1960s and 1970s (and into the ‘80s) saw a new wave of YA Fiction dealing with teenagers coping with physical and mental disabilities, debilitating illnesses and mental health issues and the impact on their families. Her family had been warned of the awesome responsibility they were all accepting… her “preppie” step-brother Harry felt sick the first time he saw her.
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