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  1. I have listened to this book a dozen times and I enjoy the ending. Good for Himillsy and her departure, but please what does cheese monkey mean,? And why was the setting a college? From Caroline

    1. I read the book too long ago to be authoritative, but I’m not sure the meaning of “cheese monkey” was ever explained (wasn’t it the title of a sculpture?) Choosing a college as a setting is easy to figure out, though –it’s a great place for a coming-of-age novel and it allows Kidd to be explicitly didactic (via the teachers) in discussing the themes of his story.

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