![]() ![]() ![]() He’s been homeless for twenty years, and as he says, “You think it won’t happen to you. Instead of crawling into your warm bed in your warm house, you crawl onto a piece of cardboard in a doorway, huddled in a filthy, moldy sleeping bag, just trying to get some shut-eye and not get shooed away or beaten up. ![]() Her hard-hitting journalism strikes a little close to home when she interviews a homeless man who sells poetry for spare change: Felix is thrilled to be reunited with Dylan, but is less certain how he feels about Winnie, a know-it-all perfectionist who works with the two boys on the school newspaper. Living in a van means he can go to the French immersion school in the district they used to live in, where his best friend is. But when Mormor dies, Astrid and Felix start their slide into homelessness: from his grandmother’s house, to a sinking condo, to a rental apartment, to a friend’s basement, to a van.įelix, the optimist, lives up to the Latin root of his name. They played at the park, made gingerbread, and watched Who, What, Where, When, a Canadian trivia show. His “mormor” looked after him while his mother was at work. He used to live with his mom, who he calls Astrid, at his grandmother’s house. And no one knows his secret.įelix has seen a lot in his twelve years. ![]() Due to a combination of bad luck and bad parenting, Felix and his mom Astrid are living out of her ex-boyfriend’s van. Just your average seventh grade boy, right? Wrong. Felix Knutsson loves trivia, his pet gerbil, and hanging out with his friend Dylan. ![]()
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