What happens when a predator comes to the suburbs? Do schools, neighbors, parents and labor union members rally around the endangered? What moves this village?
In “Honey Child,” scheduled to post this month in Classic Chicago Magazine, I explore society at large through suburban microcosm, primarily by dramatizing a bus driver named Plu and the children on her school bus, particularly a pudgy boy named Sweke.
Faced with danger, how will the bully, the thief, the nerd, the sanctimonious child, the kid with braces and the chubby one respond? Who poses the real harm to children? “Honey Child,” which I read aloud in this month’s episode, wants to know.
Review
“The ending is wonderful and extremely powerful.”
—Nancy Sindelar, Ph.D., Board Member, Ernest Hemingway Foundation, author of “Influencing Hemingway” and “Hemingway’s Passions” on “Honey Child.”
