After years of being fenced in by his backyard and his mother’s voice, Zinkoff stands on his front steps in the morning sun. The narrator comments that Zinkoff is one of many boys from the working-class town in which the story is set. Then one day, someone says Zinkoff, and you somehow know who the name belongs to. But you don’t think much about him, and don’t even know his name. You may be annoyed that he is having more fun. You may catch a glimpse of him sledding down Halftank Hill with his arms out, screaming his head off. You are neither friends nor enemies with him. You never notice him because he blends into the scenery of the playground and neighborhood. Narrated in the present tense by an unnamed omniscient narrator, Loser opens with the narrator addressing the reader as “you.” The narrator says that you grow up with the novel’s protagonist.
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