TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ball,Jesse
TI  - Census: a novel 
U1  - 813/.6 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Melbourne, Victoria
PB  - The Text Publishing Company
KW  - Widowers
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Dystopian fiction
KW  - Road fiction
KW  - Down syndrome
KW  - Down syndrome - Patients - Fiction
KW  - Interpersonal relations - Fiction
KW  - Voyages and travels - Fiction
KW  - Fathers and sons - Fiction
KW  - Terminally ill - Fiction
KW  - Widowers - Fiction
KW  - Census takers (Persons) - Fiction
KW  - Patients
KW  - Interpersonal relations
KW  - Census takers (Persons)
KW  - Voyages and travels
KW  - Fathers and sons
KW  - Terminally ill
KW  - fast
KW  - lcgft
N1  - First published in the United States by Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, New York, 2018
N2  - When a widower receives notice from a doctor that he doesn't have long left to live, he is struck by the question of who will care for his adult son--a son whom he fiercely loves, a boy with Down syndrome. With no recourse in mind, and with a desire to see the country on one last trip, the man signs up as a census taker for a mysterious governmental bureau and leaves town with his son. Travelling into the country, through towns named only by ascending letters of the alphabet, the man and his son encounter a wide range of human experience. While some townspeople welcome them into their homes, others who bear the physical brand of past censuses on their ribs are wary of their presence. When they press toward the edges of civilization, the landscape grows wilder, and the towns grow farther apart and more blighted by industrial decay. As they approach "Z," the man must confront a series of questions: What is the purpose of the census? Is he complicit in its mission? And just how will he learn to say good-bye to his son?
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