![]() ![]() The power of that guilt weighs heavily upon Joe and will demand a resolution of its own. Throughout the novel, Joe has to intercede to protect his brother and is conflicted every time he has to once again leave his brother behind. ![]() Joe is torn by the guilt of going to college and abandoning his brother. ![]() To complicate things, Joe's bipolar, alcoholic mother has taken up with a low-life who hits Joe's eighteen-year-old autistic brother. Carl agrees to tell Joe his story, and Joe sets out to unravel the tapestry of the thirty-year-old murder. At a nursing home he meets Carl Iverson, a man dying of cancer who has been medically paroled after spending thirty years in prison for the murder of a fourteen-year-old girl. The Life We Bury tells the story of Joe Talbert, a junior at the University of Minnesota, who receives a class assignment to write a biography of someone who has lived an interesting life. ![]()
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