Bob DeBillier

Bob DeBillier is 16-years-old and lives in Manhattan where he attends an exclusive private school. He thinks back to when he was 12 and lived in Winnipeg with his father and sister.

Bob was a sensitive and gentle-natured young boy who liked reading, writing and poetry. He lost his mother when he was very young and at times felt lost and abandoned by her absence. His sister was 10-years-old and was the family dynamo. Marie Claire, who was known as the Rat, was the domineering force between the two siblings. Bob was passive and had a healthy enough ego to generally let the Rat have her way.

Bob’s life was thrown into utter chaos when he found his father dead on the kitchen floor after he and the Rat returned home after the last day of the school year. At the Rat’s insistence, they buried their...