Saint Maybe Study Guide

Everyone on Waverly Street knows each other. There are the foreigners, a group of Middle Eastern students who attend Johns Hopkins, practice their English and cook with curry spices. The newlyweds, although they have been married for two years now, and the Bedloes, everyone's ideal apple pie family, two cheerful parents and three handsome children, a dog, a cat and assorted goldfish. Ian is the easygoing youngest son, who prefers to wear plaid shirts, ripped jeans and high tops held together with electrical tape to school. In 1965, there is a dress code, but it does little good to call Ian's mother to come pick him up. She is likely to turn up dressed just as sloppily, in one of Ian's worn flannel shirts with a granddaughter's pink plastic barrette in her hair. (read more)