The Amazing Absorbing Boy Author:Rabindranath Maharaj Both familiar and strange, this story of a large Canadian city seen through the wide eyes of a naive and inexperienced young immigrant ? wise in the culture of comic books ? is both hilarious and heartbreaking. — Samuel is just 17 when his mother dies and he is called to live with the father he has only heard of. He leaves his village in Trinidad... more » and flies to Toronto, where he finds his father living in a place called Regent Park. Samuel is lonely in this ?big mall of a country,? but he has his memories of superheroes ? his mentors ? to guide him, including the memory of an unusual friend who was two superheroes in one, as he sets out to explore what Toronto has to offer.« less