"I am a little leery of any mother who continues to refer to her 24-year-old son as a "baby..."
And don't forget her use of the nauseating expression "man-child" which was used once effectively in the title of the book (Manchild in the Promised Land,by I forget who) and like Gilette Razors is absolutely not to be used again, to borrow a phrase from e.e. cummings.
I wonder how her other three children feel about being virtually abandoned by their mother while she's off on her vendetta vacation to "avenge" the death of her favorite first-born.
Has anyone seen any statements from Casey's siblings? Or his father? I am curious about this omission.
My sons are in their forties and I sometimes call them 'baby.' It's a mom thing. The author of Manchild in the Promised Land spoke at our school once. Our program brought him here. I can't recall his name but I can see his face. Nice guy.