![]() ![]() But his chin was weak and recessive, and his eyes, as well formed as they were, as soft and full as his lashes grew, his eye never lit on anything for long. Large, deep-set eyes, well-formed teeth, perfectly circular nostrils. Her new brother, Charlotte observes, “was beautiful. ![]() ![]() The Freemans open themselves to Charlie as an extension of their family. Paulsen assumed some essential part of him pined for them.” Charlie had never known forests and yet Dr. He had a large, oval-shaped space with low ceilings and no windows and no furniture.” Charlie’s room was filled with plants, which Charlotte finds “an empty gesture. For the first time, Charlotte and Callie have their own rooms, and Charlie “lived behind a door in the living room. The Institute itself is large and foreboding, with security for, “you know, those animal protestors,” the research director, Dr. For Charlotte, the first glimpse of their different new life comes as they get into their new car, paid for by the Institute, a late-model Volvo that “had a curt, upturned nose that looked smug and out of place beside the lazing sedans and subservient hatchbacks parked on our block.” It’s 1990 when the Freeman family-parents Charles and Laurel, daughters Charlotte and Callie-move from Boston’s diverse Dorchester neighborhood to the very white Berkshires in western Massachusetts. ![]()
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