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A review by kellyhager
The Possibility of Everything by Hope Edelman
4.0
This is a memoir about Hope, her husband, Uzi (no, not named for the gun) and their daughter, Maya.
Maya's three and has an imaginary friend, which is perfectly normal for someone her age.
Except the friend (Dodo) is a little odd. Maya will hit her mom and then say that Dodo made her do it. (Not "Dodo did it!" but "Dodo made me do it!") And when Maya gets sick, she won't take her medicine because "Dodo doesn't want me to get better."
Hope and Uzi start to get a little freaked out so they make arrangements to visit a shaman while they're on vacation in Belize to get rid of Dodo.
I don't believe in demons, evil spirits or possession, but I can't say I think that the problem is psychological, either. (Really, while most three-year-olds don't want to take medicine, I can't imagine any refusing because they don't want to get better.)
Very good book and very fascinating. It's scary in parts (like I said, I don't believe in demons/spirits, but Dodo is a creepy thing, whatever it was) but it's mostly about the lengths that a mom (and a dad; I don't mean to discount Uzi's part in this) will go to protect their child.
(Also, I want to go to Belize now--an unexpected benefit of reading this.)
Maya's three and has an imaginary friend, which is perfectly normal for someone her age.
Except the friend (Dodo) is a little odd. Maya will hit her mom and then say that Dodo made her do it. (Not "Dodo did it!" but "Dodo made me do it!") And when Maya gets sick, she won't take her medicine because "Dodo doesn't want me to get better."
Hope and Uzi start to get a little freaked out so they make arrangements to visit a shaman while they're on vacation in Belize to get rid of Dodo.
I don't believe in demons, evil spirits or possession, but I can't say I think that the problem is psychological, either. (Really, while most three-year-olds don't want to take medicine, I can't imagine any refusing because they don't want to get better.)
Very good book and very fascinating. It's scary in parts (like I said, I don't believe in demons/spirits, but Dodo is a creepy thing, whatever it was) but it's mostly about the lengths that a mom (and a dad; I don't mean to discount Uzi's part in this) will go to protect their child.
(Also, I want to go to Belize now--an unexpected benefit of reading this.)