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“Lee is Papa and Mama’s only child for now, although there once was a sister,” the book began. “Where does Sister live now?”
At one point, Lee explained to his Papa, “Well, she used to live in Mama and doesn’t anymore.” After Papa agreed, Lee reiterated, “She lived before me, but Mama couldn’t keep her. Mama says she is a ghost.”
When Lee’s Papa asked, “[D]oes that make you sad or scared?” Lee changed his tune. “I’m not sad that my sister is a ghost! If you kept my sister, you would be tired, and sad, and mad!” When his father questioned why, Lee continued:
Because we would be wild and loud and sometimes we would fight.
Mama might be scared that she could not buy enough food for us.
Mama might not have enough time to read to me, to paint with me,
to play with me, to talk with me….
In the book, little Lee is looking for his (or her) sister.
Lee asks Papa, “Is my sister in that tree?”
“You could find a sister in the tree if you wanted to,” muses Papa.
Lee is Papa and Mama’s only child for now, although there once was a sister.
But Papa and Mama could not keep her. Where does Sister live now?
Lee alternately looks for his sister as an apple, or as a pig, with Papa dispensing such wisdom as,
“If you would like the apple to be your sister…”
Papa replies,
“But, the winter is long and you would have to eat her!”
Basically, the son is told his aborted sister is now a “happy ghost” because her death allowed her surviving brother to eat well, to have more time with his mom, and to allow the family more money.
Lee, the three-year-old, non-gendered protagonist, is now the parents only child. Lee had a sister, and scours the world looking for the sister, or more precisely, a ghost of her sister. When Lee sees a rosy apple on the highest branches of a tree, Lee asks, Is that my sister? Her father replies, If you would like the apple to be your sister . . . but, the winter is long and you would have to eat her! Lee exclaims, Nah! The apple is not my sister! The pigs will eat the apple, but the apple is not my sister! Then Lee announces, The pig is my sister! Her Papa explains, If you would like the pig to be your sister, be my guest! But will you eat her fried, stewed, or baked?
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