“This is a pretty funny book but different from her others because it includes helping an alcoholic mother of one of her students in addition to her class. Ladbrooke is an alcoholic parent whom Torey befriends and even accepts as an aide in her class. Class is made up of Lad’s autistic daughter, Leslie, Marianna who is slow but almost normal in other ways, Shamie from Belfast and his cousins Shemoana (quiet, nice) and Geraldine (unhappy, spiteful, revengeful, destructive), and Dirkie who’s a...”